spring-clean
See also: spring clean
English
editEtymology
editBack-formation from spring-cleaning.
Verb
editspring-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.