| 单词 |
spandy |
| 释义 |
ˈspandy, a. U.S. [? var. of spander in spander-new.] Very good or fine; smart. Also spandy-clean, quite clean; spandy-bright, spandy new.
1838‘T. Titterwell’ Yankee Notions 116, I have heard of a ghost that always came in a new coat..and a spandy clean dickey. 1848Bartlett Dict. Amer., Spandy-clean, very clean; perfectly clean. 1863L. M. Alcott Hospital Sk. 319 (Cent. Dict.), Thirty gentlemen with spandy clean faces and hands. 1868― Little Women ix, My silk stockings and two pairs of spandy gloves are my comfort. 1903K. D. Wiggin Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm i. 14 The trouble is to get the shoes... These are spandy new I've got on. 1968J. Updike Couples iii. 227 Ben's lank hairs ran together to make black seams, like sores downrunning into the tops of his comically new top⁓siders, cup-soled, spandy-bright. 1973E.-J. Bahr Nice Neighbourhood ii. 23 Don has this very definite fixation that I am going to bang up our spandy new car. |

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