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# spick

adjective (no other forms; used in «spick and span»)

«spick» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

(old use) «Spick and span» means very clean, neat and tidy, as if brand new. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spick/#m1)

### In the lessons

in the tales, a house or a person kept neat and fine, often ready for a special day

### Examples

- Everything in the house was spick and span. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spick/#x1)
- Geppetto stood there, spick and span in his new clothes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spick/#x2)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «spick» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spick/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«spick» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/spick.html) on Mova free.