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adjective

Tidy adj. (compar. tidier; superl. tidiest)

Being in proper time; timely; seasonable; favorable; as, tidy weather. (Obs.) "If weather be fair and tidy."

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."

verb

Tidy v. t. (past & past part. tidied; pres. part. tidying) To put in proper order; to make neat; as, to tidy a room; to tidy one's dress.

Tidy v. i. To make things tidy. (Colloq.) "I have tidied and tidied over and over again."

noun

Tidy n. (Zool.) The wren; called also tiddy. (Prov. Eng.) "The tidy for her notes as delicate as they." Note: This name is probably applied also to other small singing birds, as the goldcrest.

Tidy n. (pl. tidies)

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.

A child's pinafore. (Prov. Eng.)

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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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