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Tidy   /tˈaɪdi/   Listen
Tidy

adjective
(compar. tidier; superl. tidiest)
1.
Marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits.  "A tidy house" , "A tidy mind"
2.
(of hair) neat and tidy.  Synonym: kempt.
3.
Large in amount or extent or degree.  Synonyms: goodish, goodly, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable.  "A goodly amount" , "Received a hefty bonus" , "A respectable sum" , "A tidy sum of money" , "A sizable fortune"
verb
(past & past part. tidied; pres. part. tidying)
1.
Put (things or places) in order.  Synonyms: clean up, neaten, square away, straighten, straighten out, tidy up.
noun
1.
Receptacle that holds odds and ends (as sewing materials).



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"Tidy" Quotes from Famous Books



... My window-box was full of daffodils. They are just over now. Mrs. Morres said it was like the country. Afterwards I locked up the flat, put the key in my pocket, discovered a hansom—it wasn't easy, but 'Tilda, who comes in to tidy up for me every day, managed it. Her young man is a hansom-driver. I stayed the night at the Square, and we went ...
— Mary Gray • Katharine Tynan
... another. I wish to have the comfort of thinking, when I am away, that I have left you with everything necessary to the keeping up of good habits everything that will make them pleasant and easy. I wish you to be always neat, and tidy, and industrious; depending upon others as little as possible; and careful to improve yourself by every means, and especially by writing to me. I will leave you no excuse, Ellen, for failing in any ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Elizabeth Wetherell
... and to touch the canvas with one's head was to invoke a shower-bath. Soaking in wet weather and broiling in fine, it was anything but a paradise of cooks, yet it was wonderful how well the maid managed in it, and how neat and tidy she kept it. ...
— A Trip to Manitoba • Mary FitzGibbon
... three hundred thousand pounds by following the Armenian way of doing business, so it was not probable that I should feel disposed to be a book- keeper or ostler all my life with no other prospect than being able to make a tidy sum of money. If indeed, besides the prospect of making a tidy sum at the end of perhaps forty years' ostlering, I had been certain of being presented with a silver currycomb with my name engraved upon it, which I might have left to my descendants, ...
— The Romany Rye • George Borrow
... the reins and stopped the cob. The cob was in that condition that the slightest touch sufficed to stop him, though he turned his head somewhat ruefully as if in doubt whether hay and corn would be within the regulations of a Temperance Hotel. Kenelm descended and entered the house. A tidy woman emerged from a sort of glass cupboard which constituted the bar, minus the comforting drinks associated with the beau ideal of a bar, but which displayed instead two large decanters of cold water with tumblers a discretion, and sundry plates of thin biscuits and sponge-cakes. This ...
— Kenelm Chillingly, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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