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brand-new, a.|ˈbrænd ˈnjuː|
Also bran-new, Sc. brank-, brent-new.
[f. brand n. + new, as if fresh and glowing from the furnace; cf. Shakespeare's fire-new.]
Quite new, perfectly new.
c1570Foxe Serm. 2 Cor. v. 63 New bodies, new minds..and all thinges new, brande-newe. 1714Gay What d'ye call it? ii. v. 28 ‘Wear these Breeches Tom; they're quite bran-new.’ 1790Burns Tam o' Shanter, Nae cotillon brent new frae France. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 38 When villagers put on their bran-new clothes. 1824Scott St. Ronan's I. 56 (Jam.) Yeomen with the brank new blues and buckskins. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. II. vii. iii. 183 The whole Saxon Army..all in beautiful brand-new uniforms. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 131 A bran-new vaudeville.
Hence in same sense (chiefly dial.) the double forms brand-fire-new, brand-span-new, brand-spander-new. Also brand-newness.
1825Bro. Jonathan I. 151 Bran-fire, noo, as I'm alive. 1830H. Angelo Remin. I. 57 His feet were thrust into a bran-span new pair of fashionable pumps. 1855Whitby Gloss., Brandnew, Brandspandernew, fresh from the maker's hands, or ‘spic and span new’. 1870Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. (1879) I. 108 This brand-newness makes it seem much less effective. |