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Definition: Spic |
SpicAdjective1. Completely neat and clean; "the apartment was immaculate"; "in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick-and-span kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps". Noun1. Ethnic slur; offensive terms for persons of Latin American descent. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SPIC | English | Spare Parts Inventory Package | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SpicSynonyms: immaculate (adj), speckless (adj), spic-and-span (adj), spick-and-span (adj), spotless (adj), spick (n), spik (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Spic |
| English words defined with "spic": immaculate ♦ speckless, spic-and-span, spick, spick-and-span, spotless ♦ visored. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "spic": Spick and Span New. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Spic" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (ear, Spike). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Spic and Span (1950) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | India | A few of the active players in agriculture/plant biotechnology sector include are Hindustan Lever, Dupont, Indo-American Hybrid Seeds, ITC Zeneca, Hoechst Schering AgrEvo-PGS, Pioneer-Hi-Bred, SPIC, Novartis, AV Thomas, EID Parry, National Organic Chemical Industries Ltd., Rallis, Cadila Plant Biotechnology and Godrej Biotech. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Spic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Spic" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| India | Henkel SPIC India Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "spic": spic-and-span. | |
Ending with "spic": sweet-spic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
spic | 52 |
spic and span | 38 |
n spanish spic | 11 |
joke spic | 10 |
n span spic | 10 |
o rama spic | 6 |
girl spic | 5 |
spanish spic | 4 |
spic span cleaners | 3 |
company span spic | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "spic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | meksikan (greaser, mexican). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متكلم بالإسبانية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | latino. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | geschniegelt und gebügelt (spic and span, spick and span, spruced up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | icspay испано-язычный. (various references) osoba koja govori španski. (various references) คำเรียกคนสเปน (คำสแลง) (spick). (various references) латиноамериканець (hispanic, spick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spic": spica, spicae, spicas, spicate, spicated, spiccato, spiccatos, spice, spicebush, spicebushes, spiced, spiceless, spicer, spiceries, spicers, spicery, spices, spicey, spicier, spiciest, spicily, spiciness, spicinesses, spicing, spick, spicks, spics, spicula, spiculae, spicular, spiculation, spiculations, spicule, spicules, spiculum, spicy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "spic": aspic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "spic": allspice, allspices, aruspices, aspics, auspice, auspices, auspicious, auspiciously, auspiciousness, auspiciousnesses, conspicuities, conspicuity, conspicuous, conspicuously, conspicuousness, conspicuousnesses, despicable, despicableness, despicablenesses, despicably, haruspication, haruspications, haruspices, hospice, hospices, inauspicious, inauspiciously, inauspiciousness, inauspiciousnesses, inconspicuous, inconspicuously, inconspicuousness, inconspicuousnesses, oversuspicious, perspicacious, perspicaciously, perspicaciousness, perspicaciousnesses, perspicacities, perspicacity, perspicuities, perspicuity, perspicuous, perspicuously, perspicuousness, perspicuousnesses, suspicion, suspicioned, suspicioning, suspicions, suspicious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spic" (pronounced spi"k) |
| 3 | -p i" k | handpick, pic, pick. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pics. | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-p-s" | |
-1 letter: cis, pic, pis, psi, sic, sip. | |
-2 letters: is, pi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-p-s" | |
+1 letter: aspic, chips, clips, crisp, epics, picas, picks, pisco, scrip, sepic, spica, spice, spick, spics, spicy. | |
+2 letters: apices, aspics, biceps, capias, capris, capsid, chimps, chirps, copies, crimps, cripes, crisps, crispy, cupids, cuspid, cuspis, optics, panics, phasic, physic, picots, piculs, pieces, piscos, precis, prices, pricks, psocid, scampi, scrimp, scrips, script, scyphi, septic, specie, spicae, spicas, spiced, spicer, spices, spicey, spicks, splice, topics. | |
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