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单词 brand-new
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brand-newadj.

/ˈbrandˈnjuː/
Forms: Also bran-new, Scottish brank-, brent-new.
Etymology: < brand n. + new adj. and n., as if fresh and glowing from the furnace; compare Shakespeare's fire-new.
Quite new, perfectly new.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > brand new
span-newc1300
spon-new13..
brand-newc1570
spick and span new1579
new-new1592
fire-new1597
fiery-new1644
spick and span1665
split-new1695
spander-new1707
spank span-new1775
spick-span1815
spleet-new1818
brand-span-new1828
spick-span new1880
firebrand new1882
spanking new1886
spandy new1903
pin-new1967
box-fresh1990
c1570 J. Foxe Serm. 2 Cor. v. 63 New bodies, new minds..and all thinges new, brande-newe.
1715 J. Gay What d'ye call It ii. v. 28 Wear these Breeches Tom; they're quite bran-new.
1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 116 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 560 Nae cotillion brent new frae France.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 38 When villagers put on their bran-new clothes.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. ii. 56 Yeomen with the brank new blues and buckskins.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vii. iii. 183 The whole Saxon Army..all in beautiful brand-new uniforms.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 123 A bran-new vaudeville.

Compounds

Hence in same sense (chiefly dialect) the double forms.
brand-fire-new adj.
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1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 151 Bran-fire, noo, as I'm alive.
brand-span-new adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > brand new
span-newc1300
spon-new13..
brand-newc1570
spick and span new1579
new-new1592
fire-new1597
fiery-new1644
spick and span1665
split-new1695
spander-new1707
spank span-new1775
spick-span1815
spleet-new1818
brand-span-new1828
spick-span new1880
firebrand new1882
spanking new1886
spandy new1903
pin-new1967
box-fresh1990
1828 H. Angelo Reminisc. I. 57 His feet were thrust into a bran-span new pair of fashionable pumps.
brand-spander-new adj.
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1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 19 Brandnew, Brandspandernew, fresh from the maker's hands, or ‘spic and span new’.

Derivatives

brand-newness n.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun]
newnesseOE
novelrya1393
novelty1402
newelty1435
newhead?a1475
novelnessa1485
novellityc1485
novity1569
youtha1600
novelism1626
spick-and-span newness1640
noveltiness1690
brand-newness1854
gee-whizzery1971
1854 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 24 Aug. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. ii. 112 This bran-newness makes it seem much less effective.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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