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Meanings of spick in English

Completely neat and clean.

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(Ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent.

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Examples for "spik"
Examples for "spik"
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He couldna bear tew look na tew spik to nane o' us.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida / Selected from the Works of Ou...
2
I, who spik to you, am made for a courtier, a noble.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
3
If he should only spik your 'osban's name, all would be different.
The Ne'er-Do-Well
4
Natural gas prices have similarly spiked and retreated over the past year.
Reuters
5
Reported cases of whooping cough have spiked in the past four weeks.
Radio NZ
Usage of spick in English
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It was all in order-allspick and span-French ,everytouch of it.
Sally Bishop: A Romance
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Others sat spick and span and ready for supper on the porch.
Mistress Anne
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Mary slipped from the gate and confronted the spick-and-span damsel of Ingleside.
Rainbow Valley
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Sometimes it was a coatless dump-boss blaspheming his toiling army of spick-a-dees.
Never-Fail Blake
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The little people are there to keep the world spick 'n span.
The South African
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Lilly thought she had never beheld such spick-and-span efficiency as this woman's.
Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
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The captain looked suspiciously from the two grimy travellers to the spick-and-span Englishman.
Round the World in Seven Days
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This dreadful thing is the philosophy of the spick and span.
Revolution, and Other Essays
9
Iced cantaloupe was served by a spick-span alert waiter; then, quail on toast.
Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New Englan...
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Before night the big house was spick and span from garret to cellar.
Through stained glass / A Novel
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Instinctively, he thought about his own flat where everything was spick and span.
Arctic chill
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The erudite Lane was a neatly built little fellow, very spick and span.
The Glory of the Conquered: The Story of a Great Love
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But even they had to admit that Dickie was a spick-and-span young chap.
The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse
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A spick-and-span cupboard, with a perforated tin front, stood over against the wall.
Everychild / A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young an...
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I know it doesn't look spick and span as it should-
Janice Day, the Young Homemaker
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Then, spick and span, exquisitely appointed, he sauntered forth swinging his malacca cane.
The Gray Dawn
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