spick

plural spicks

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of spic.

plural spicks

1. obsoleteA nail, a spike (slender piece of wood or metal, used as a fastener).

comparative spicker · superlative spickest

1. Tidy; fresh.

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   Internally the building bad been modernized and reconstructed to a point where it was doubtful whether its previous tenants would be able to recognize a single room. Outside it had become spick. The yards and sheds had a suburban rather than a rural tidiness and had for years known no form of animal life rougher than a few riding horses and ponies. The farmyard showed no utilitarian sights and gave forth no rustic smells; it had been laid over with close green turf like a bowling green.

   1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 218

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of speak.

   “Spick Italiano?” he asked. “No.” “Spick Français?” “Oui,” said Dick, glowering.

   1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Malcolm Cowley, Tender is the Night […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1951, →OCLC, book IV (Escape: 1925–1929), page 243