spring-clean

See also: spring clean

English

Etymology

Back-formation from spring-cleaning.

Verb

spring-clean (third-person singular simple present spring-cleans, present participle spring-cleaning, simple past and past participle spring-cleaned)

(transitive) To carry out spring-cleaning on (a room, a house, etc).
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 1:
  The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.
(intransitive) To engage in spring-cleaning.

Derived terms

spring-cleaner

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