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Spick

//spɪk// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Tidy; fresh.

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    completely neat and clean wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of spic. alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    A nail, a spike (slender piece of wood or metal, used as a fastener). obsolete
  3. 3
    (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    Pronunciation spelling of speak. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

Variant of spike.

Etymology 2

Variant of spike.

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