Tidy vs Housekeeping - What's the difference?
tidy | housekeeping |
(obsolete) In good time; at the right time; timely; seasonable; opportune; favourable; fit; suitable.
* Tusser
(lb) Brave; smart; skillful; fine; good.
Appropriate or suitable as regards occasion, circumstances, arrangement, or order.
Arranged neatly and in order.
Not messy; neat and controlled.
Satisfactory; comfortable.
(informal) Generous, considerable.
To make tidy; to neaten.
A tabletop container for pens and stationery.
A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, etc.
(dated) A child's pinafore.
The wren.
(Wales) Expression of positive agreement, usually in reply to a question.
The chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning.
* 1842 , Samuel Laing, Notes of a traveller (page 474)
Any general tasks that involve preparation.
Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions.
* Sir Walter Scott
As a proper noun tidy
is .As a noun housekeeping is
the chores of maintaining a house as a residence, especially cleaning.tidy
English
Adjective
(er)- if weather be fair and tidy
- Keep Britain tidy .
- The scheme made a tidy profit.
Synonyms
* neat * orderly * presentable * spick and spanAntonyms
* messy * untidyDerived terms
* hair-tidyVerb
Noun
(tidies)- a desk tidy
- (Wright)
- (Drayton)
Interjection
(en interjection)Usage notes
Often used by people from South Wales to end a sentence or as a reply to a question meaning "Great" or "Fine", for example "I'm going to the shops for ten fags" may get the reply "Tidy." 1000 English basic wordshousekeeping
English
Noun
- Those who with us would have their own little housekeepings and cooking, have not the means, nor perhaps the taste, for such domestic comfort, and take their victuals at the trattoria, or cook-shop.
- The computer program does some general housekeeping involving initializing variables and opening files before beginning the main processing.
- "Care not thou about that," said Joliffe; "but tell me, softly and hastily, what is in the pantry?"
"Small housekeeping enough," said Phoebe; "a cold capon and some comfits, and the great standing venison pasty, with plenty of spice — a manchet or two besides, and that is all."