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  2. Spic and Span - Wikipedia

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    The phrase "span-new" meant as new as a freshly cut wood chip, such as those once used to make spoons. In a metaphor dating from at least 1300, something span-new was neat and unstained. [6] Spic was added in the 16th century, as a "spick" (a spike or nail) was another metaphor for something neat and trim.

  3. Spic - Wikipedia

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    Spic (or spick) is an ethnic slur used in the United States to describe Hispanic and Latino Americans or Spanish-speaking people from Latin America. Etymology and history [ edit ]

  4. Talk:Spic - Wikipedia

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    Surely this section should say that the cleaning product presumably takes its name from the phrase "spick and span" (usually spelled with a k) which the OED dates back to 1665, meaning "Particularly neat, trim, or smart", (not to mention that "spick and span" itself is a shortening of a "spick and span new" that dates back to the late 1500s, etc).

  5. Spic (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Spic is an ethnic slur for a person of Latino/Hispanic descent. Spic, spik or Špik may also refer to: SPIC (Indian company), a petrochemicals company; State Power Investment Corporation, a Chinese electricity generator; Špik, a mountain in Slovenia; Luka Špik (born 1979), a Slovenian rower

  6. Prestige Consumer Healthcare - Wikipedia

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    It was formed by the merger of Medtech Products, Inc., Prestige Brands International, and the Spic and Span Company in 1996. The company is headquartered in Tarrytown, New York [1]: 2 and operates a manufacturing facility in Lynchburg, Virginia. [1]: 9

  7. Talk:Spic and Span - Wikipedia

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    I don't really see why a detailed etymology of the everyday English phrase "spick and span" is given here. That's not related to this product, except that the product borrowed the existing phrase for its name. 2A00:23C5:FE18:2700:15BC:2FFF:8AB7:2565 23:55, 2 October 2021 (UTC) I concur.

  8. List of Spicks and Specks episodes - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of episodes for the Australian comedy music quiz show Spicks and Specks which began airing on 2 February 2005 on the ABC. [1] It was first hosted by Adam Hills, with Myf Warhurst and Alan Brough as team captains. [2]

  9. Spicks and Specks (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Spicks and Specks" is a song by the Bee Gees, written by Barry Gibb. When the song was released in September 1966, the single reached No. 4 on the Go-Set Australian National Top 40 [3] (No. 1 on other Australian charts), [4] [5] and when the song was released in other countries in February 1967, it reached No. 28 in Germany, No. 2 in the Netherlands and No. 1 in New Zealand.

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