"Spang" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rather, Mr. Douce, for the "D" appended to the note shows it to have proceeded from that accomplished antiquary), explains it, "Spon-neowe, span-new, newly spun. This is probably the true explanation of spick and span new. Ihre renders sping-spang, plane novus, in voce fick fack." The learned Jamieson, in his Dictionary, s. v. Split-new (which corresponds to the German Splitter neu, i. e. as new as a splinter or chip from the block), shows, at greater length than we can quote, that split and ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 • Various
... we went, and right spang in the thickest of the bushes an' muck we come across the queerest lookin' machine that ever ...
— The Panchronicon • Harold Steele Mackaye
... out fokes's eyes wid dat Yallerbammer sling des 'fo' dinner? Who dat sickin' dat pinter puppy atter my pig? Who dat scatterin' my ingun sets? Who dat flingin' rocks on top er my house, w'ich a little mo' en one un em would er drap spang on ...
— Uncle Remus • Joel Chandler Harris |
