[
UK
/spˈɪk/
]
ADJECTIVE
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completely neat and clean
a spick-and-span kitchen
the apartment was immaculate
their spic red-visored caps
in her immaculate white uniform
NOUN
- (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent
How To Use spick In A Sentence
- In the periphery of the oxidation, copper mineralization occurs as chalcopyrite, bornite, tennantite and mispickel.
- A dressed product of copper works in South America, consisting of grains of native copper mixed with pyrite, chalcopyrite, mispickel, and earthy minerals.
- The chief source of the arsenic of commerce is arsenical pyrites, or mispickel, which contains about 45 per cent. of arsenic (As). A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
- The council spends a lot of money keeping the town spick and span.
- It can be obtained from mispickel by heating, which causes the arsenic to sublime and leaves the iron sulfide.
- Murton Grange is a spick-and-span farmstead all in white.
- His city house is of the spick and span order, and he evinces a great interest in burglarproof devices. When the World Was Young
- Iron is found combined with sulphur in pyrrhotine and pyrites, and together with arsenic in mispickel. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
- Sulphur in blende, 375 in burnt ore, 377 in chalcocite, 376 in coal, 419 in copper, 207 in copper pyrites, 376 in mispickel, 376 in pyrites, 370, 376 A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
- His hutch, and that of the warren-cats his collaterals, was a long, spick-and-span new rack, a-top of which (as the mumper told us) some large stately mangers were fixed in the reverse. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel