释义 |
split-new, a. [app. f. split n.1 or v. Cf. Sc. spleet-new.] Perfectly new, brand-new.
1695J. Sage Presbytery (1697) 246 A split new Democratical Systeme; a very Farce of Novelties. 1800Monthly Mag. April 239/2 ‘The coat is split new.’ This no doubt is a Scotticism. 1849Cupples Green Hand xi. (1856) 115, I 'scribes the whole o' my togs as if I'd made 'em,—‘split new,’ says I. |