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Definition of Spick
1. Adjective. Completely neat and clean. "Their spic red-visored caps"
Similar to: Clean
Derivative terms: Immaculateness, Spotlessness
2. Noun. (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent.
Language type: Depreciation, Derogation, Disparagement, Ethnic Slur, Argot, Cant, Jargon, Lingo, Patois, Slang, Vernacular
Generic synonyms: Latin American, Latino
Definition of Spick
1. n. A spike or nail.
Definition of Spick
1. Noun. (US British derogatory racial slur) A Latino/Hispanic person. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) nail, a spike (slender piece of wood or metal, used as a fastener). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spick
1. spic [adj SPICKER, SPICKEST] - See also: spic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spick
Literary usage of Spick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"spick-AND-SPAN-NEW. Quite new. Fortune th' audacious doth ... Then while the
honour thou hast gat Is spick and span »ICH-, piping hot, Strike her up bravely ..."
2. Mount Omi and Beyond: A Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border by Archibald John Little (1901)
"... Hundreds of Green and Blue Marble Basins—spick and Span Shrines—The Shrine of
the Snow Mountains—Junction with the ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Spank, v a. Strike (with the open hand), slap Span-new, a Brand-new, fire-new,
quite new, 3. Bitter, unpleasant, disagreeable. spick-and-span new. ..."
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