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bottom the house en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (dated, idiomatic) To clean a house from top to bottom; to clean a house extremely thoroughly.
    • She had 'bottomed' the house (ie spring-cleaned) and cooked specially for me. 1978, Colin Gordon, A richer dust: echoes from an Edwardian album:
    • My mother-in-law pickled walnuts and covered floors in rag rugs she bottomed the house each spring 1985, The Raving Beauties, editors, No holds barred, →ISBN:
    • The half-length lace curtains keep out most of what little sun there is, but they establish your privacy: the window-ledges and doorsteps scrubbed and yellowed with scouring-stone further establish that you are a 'decent' family, that you believe in 'bottoming' the house each week. 1957, Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy, →ISBN:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bottoms the house Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
bottomed the house Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bottomed the house Tense=Past lexicographic
bottoming the house Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

spring cleaning

Translations (12)

cs gruntovat (clean a house extremely thoroughly) · sv storstäda (clean a house extremely thoroughly) · ru очисти́ть дом по́лностью (clean a house extremely thoroughly) · fi siivota lattiasta kattoon (clean a house extremely thoroughly) · pt faxinar (clean a house extremely thoroughly) · es limpiar completamente (clean a house extremely thoroughly) · hy տունը ոտքից գլուխ մաքրել (clean a house extremely thoroughly) · fr nettoyer du sol au plafond (clean a house extremely thoroughly) · nl grote schoonmaak houden (clean a house extremely thoroughly) · de gründlich durchputzen (clean a house extremely thoroughly) · cmn 徹底打掃房子 /彻底打扫房子 (clean a house extremely thoroughly) · fi tehdä suursiivous (clean a house extremely thoroughly)