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
Maynard	MAY-nərd	English
Hester	['hestə]
Gurgen	-	Armenian, Georgian
Isi	-	Native American, Choctaw
Renata	re-NAH-tah (Italian, Spanish, German, Polish)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish, Czech, Croatian, Slovene, Late Roman
Set	SET (English), SAYT (English)	Egyptian Mythology (Hellenized)