Spick

Definition: Spick

Spick

Adjective

1. Completely neat and clean; "the apartment was immaculate"; "in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick-and-span kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps".

Noun

1. Ethnic slur; offensive terms for persons of Latin American descent.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1664. (references)

Etymology: Spick \Spick\, noun. [Compare to Swedish spik. See Spike nail.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Spick

Newness

Fresh as a rose, fresh as a daisy, fresh as paint; spick and span.

Crosswords: Spick

Back in my day, they wasn't called Chicanos or Anglo-Americans or Afro-Americans, we was all Americans so if a guy was a jig or a spick, it was his own business. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

In my day we didn't have no Anglo Americans or African Americans, we was all Americans so if a guy was a jig or a spick, it was his own business. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "spick": spick and span. Additional references.

Beginning with "spick": spick-and-span, spick-end-span.

Albanian

krëk (natty, spick and span, Spruce), i pastër dritë (spick and span). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهندم ونظيف (spick and span), ‏جديد تماما (spick and span), ‏أنيق (bijou, chic, classy, coxcomb, dainty, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, jaunty, ladylike, mincing, natty, neat, nice, perky, personable, posh, presentable, rich, saucy, seemly, sharp, smart, smug, sophisticated, spick and span, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, spruce, stylish, suave, swagger, swell, tailor made, taut, tidy, tight, trim, well groomed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

чист и спретнат (spick and span), нов-новеничък (spick and span), пресен (caller, fresh, good, new, new-laid, spick and span, sweet, taintless, warm, young). (various references)

Czech

zbrusu nový (brand new, mint, spick-end-span), èistý jako klícka (spick-end-span). (various references)

French

qui a l'air de sortir d'une boîte (spick and span), impeccable (spick and span, spotless, Spruce), chic (spick and span, sport, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty). (various references)

German

geschniegelt und gebügelt (spic and span, spick and span, spruced up). (various references)

Greek 

καινουργήσ (new, spick and span), καθαρώτατοσ (spick and span), καθαρόσ (blank, clean, cleanly, clear, cloudless, neat, net, plain, pure, sheer, smokeless, spick and span). (various references)

Hebrew 

מבריק (brilliant, glossy, glowing, lustrous, shining, shiny, sparkling, spick and span, vivid, whizz), מסו�"ר ו� קי (neat, spick and span, tidy), ח�"ש (fresh, new, novel, spick and span). (various references)

Hungarian

vadonatúj (brand new, brand-new, in mint condition, in mint state, spick and span, spick-and-span, spick-and-span new), tipp-topp (cheesy, smart, spick and span, spick-and-span, tiptop), újszerű (novel, patent, recent, spick-and-span). (various references)

Italian

splendente (ablaze, beaming, bright, shining, spick and span, sunny), lindo (clean, neat, spick and span, tidy, trig, unsoiled). (various references)

Manx

skeabit as scooirit (spick and span), oor-ghlen (spick and span). (various references)

Pig Latin

ickspay

Portuguese

reluzente (polished, sheeny, shining, shiny, sparkling, spick and span, splendent), novo em folha (spick and span), lustroso (beady, glace, glazed, glazy, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, silken, silky, sleek, sleeky, slick, smooth, spick and span, splendent). (various references)

Romanian

pus la punct (dapper, finished, jaunty, shipshape, spick and span), nou-nouţ (brand new, spick and span). (various references)

Russian 

испанец (spaniard, spic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nov novcat (spick and span), bez mrlje (spick and span, stainless, taintless, unblemished). (various references)

Spanish

hispano (hispanic, spaniard, spanish). (various references)

Swedish

splitterny (brand new, new-minted, spick and span), pryglig (spick and span). (various references)

Thai

คำเรียกคนสเปน (คำสแลง) (spic). (various references)

Turkish

yepyeni (brand new, bran-new, in mint condition, mint state, spick and span, unused, unworn), tertemiz (idyllic, immaculate, neatly, spick and span, spotlessly clean, stainless, taintless, unsullied, unworn, very clean), taptaze (as fresh as daisy, free from taint, fresh, spick and span), iki dirhem bir çekirdek (all dolled up, as if came out of a bandbox, dapper, dressed up to the nines, spick and span), gıcır gıcır (brand new, bran-new, crisp, spick and span), çok şık (as if came out of a bandbox, spick and span). (various references)

Ukrainian

латиноамериканець (hispanic, spic). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "spick": spicks. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: picks.

-1 letter: kips, pick, pics, sick, skip, spic, spik.

-2 letters: cis, ick, kip, pic, pis, psi, sic, sip, ski.

-3 letters: is, pi, si.

+1 letter: pricks, spicks.

+2 letters: bipacks, kickups, peckish, pickers, pickets, pickles, pickups, puckish, pyknics, skeptic, stickup, unpicks, upticks.

+3 letters: backspin, capeskin, cockpits, dipstick, duckpins, gripsack, kingcups, lickspit, lipstick, lopstick, nitpicks, nutpicks, packings, peckiest, pickaxes, pickeers, pickiest, pickings, pickoffs, piddocks, pigstick, pockiest, prickers, prickets, prickles, skeptics, skipjack, specking, stickpin, stickups, tipstock, topkicks, tripacks, wickapes, wickiups, wickyups.