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