"spandy" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps a variant of spander-new, or from spick-and-span, both attested from the 17th century, while spandy clean appears in 1838 (see quotations below). Both spander-new and spick-and-span come from earlier span-new, which is attested from c. 1300. Etymology templates: {{unc|en}} Uncertain Head templates: {{en-adj|?}} spandy
  1. Neat, fine, very good. Tags: archaic, colloquial
    Sense id: en-spandy-en-adj-voV-7D5O Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 99 1

Adverb

Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps a variant of spander-new, or from spick-and-span, both attested from the 17th century, while spandy clean appears in 1838 (see quotations below). Both spander-new and spick-and-span come from earlier span-new, which is attested from c. 1300. Etymology templates: {{unc|en}} Uncertain Head templates: {{en-adv|?}} spandy
  1. (often with clean) Entirely, nicely, very. Tags: archaic, colloquial, often
    Sense id: en-spandy-en-adv--MUjJcK8

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