bottom the house

antiquated To thoroughly clean every part of a house, i.e., from "top to bottom." Every time we visited my elderly aunt, she told us to help her "bottom the house," as if we were her maids.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Budur	-	Arabic
Brahma	BRAH-mah	Hinduism
Mirella	mee-REL-lah	Italian
Early	['ə:li]
Nurullah	-	Arabic, Turkish
Luisa	LWEE-sah (Spanish), LWEE-zah (Italian)	Spanish, Italian