Word Direct Answers

What does "tidy" mean?

Tidy: Being in proper time; timely; seasonable; favorable; as, tidy weather. [Obs.] If weather be fair and tidy. Tusser.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Arranged in good order; orderly; appropriate; neat; kept in proper and becoming neatness, or habitually keeping things so; as, a tidy lass; their dress is tidy; the apartments are well furnished and tidy. A tidy man, that tened [injured] me never. Piers Plowman.
  2. 3.A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, or the like.
  3. 4.A child's pinafore. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.
  4. 5.To put in proper order; to make neat; as, to tidy a room; to tidy one's dress.
  5. 6.To make things tidy. [Colloq.] I have tidied and tidied over and over again. Dickens.

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