spring-clean
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See also: spring clean
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from spring-cleaning.
Verb
[edit]spring-clean (third-person singular simple present spring-cleans, present participle spring-cleaning, simple past and past participle spring-cleaned)
- (transitive) To carry out spring-cleaning on (a room, a house, etc).
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 1:
- The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.
- (intransitive) To engage in spring-cleaning.