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bottom the house
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 | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Suhail | | - | Arabic, Urdu |
| Lauryn | | - | English (Modern) |
| CuimÍN | | - | Irish |
| Trudy | | TROO-dee (English), TRUY-dee (Dutch) | English, Dutch |
| Evgeniya | | yev-GYE-nee-yah (Russian), eev-GYE-nee-yah (Russian) | Bulgarian, Russian |
| TÁHirih | | - | History |