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# spick

«spick» in Mova's school dictionary: **very clean, neat and tidy, as if brand new** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spick» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spick/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.