Definitions for spring-cleaning

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spring-cleaning spring-clean·ing

Spelling: [spring-klee-ning]

IPA: /ˈsprɪŋˈkli nɪŋ/

Spring-Cleaning is a 15 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 1644 anagrams from letters in spring-cleaning (-aceggiilnnnprs).

Definitions for spring-cleaning

noun

1. a complete cleaning of a place, as a home, done traditionally in the spring of the year.
2. the activity of giving a place a complete cleaning:

verb (used with object)

1. to subject (a place) to a spring-cleaning.

Origin of spring-cleaning

First recorded in 1855-60

Examples for spring-cleaning

She had not been caustic, like his mother, about this male incursion into spring-cleaning.

Yes, we'll paint London red for you—it's the season for spring-cleaning.

In the first week of April, the badger's spring-cleaning began in downright earnest.

He added a little sternly, 'Have you forgotten that this is spring-cleaning time?'

This is the first intimation we have received that spring-cleaning is over.

How can I leave mother in the middle of all this spring-cleaning?

spring-cleaning and moving took every ounce of sense out of them.

Miss her very much, of course, but thank God there's no spring-cleaning now.

The whole office is more or less disorganized by the spring-cleaning.

The woman who lived in the corner house was spring-cleaning.