bottoming the house

Verb

bottom the house (third-person singular simple present bottoms the house, present participle bottoming the house, simple past and past participle bottomed the house)

1. (dated, idiomatic) To clean a house from top to bottom; to clean a house extremely thoroughly.
   • The half-length lace curtains keep out most of what little sun there is, but they establish your privacy: the window-ledges and doorsteps scrubbed and yellowed with scouring-stone further establish that you are a 'decent' family, that you believe in 'bottoming' the house each week.1957, Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy, →ISBN