HOUSECLEAN

houseclean, clean house, clean

(verb) clean and tidy up the house; “She housecleans every week”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

houseclean (third-person singular simple present housecleans, present participle housecleaning, simple past and past participle housecleaned)

(intransitive) To clean the interior and furnishings of a residence.

(intransitive) To make major reforms; to clean house.

(transitive) To clean the interior and residential furnishings of.

(transitive) To rid of undesirable personnel and procedures.

Usage notes

• The intransitive sense of reform is much more commonly expressed as "clean house".

Anagrams

• clean house

Source: Wiktionary



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Coffee Trivia

The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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