spic and span

Neat and clean. A “spick” was a nail (as in “spike”), “span” was a wood shaving, and a new wooden object had shiny spicks in it and fresh spans around it. Over the years the meaning of newness was replaced by that of something fresh and clean (as a new object usually was).

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Briseida	-	Literature
Hakan	-	Turkish
Margherita	-	Italian
Sebastian	ze-BAHS-tee-ahn (German), sə-BAS-chən (English), se-BAHS-tyahn (Polish), SE-bahs-tee-ahn (Finnish)	German, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Finnish, Romanian
Bennett	['benit]
Kuzman	-	Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian