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neat-house

neat-house is the alternative spelling of neathouse.

Meaning of neathouse

Noun

neathouse (plural neathouses)

  1. (obsolete) A building for the shelter of neat cattle.
    • The neathouse for musk-melons, and the gardens,
      Where we traffic for asparagus, are, to me,
      In the other world.1632, Philip Massinger, The City Madam

Forms of neat-house

pluralneat-houses

Questions about neat-house

What is neat-house the alternative spelling of?
Neat-house is the alternative spelling of neathouse.

Words near neat-house in the dictionary

  1. neat-freakery
  2. neat-freaks
  3. neat-handed
  4. neat-handedly
  5. neat-handedness
  6. neat-house
  7. neat-houses
  8. neatball
  9. neatballs
  10. neatbeast
  11. neatbeasts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: neat-house (page history and authors); neathouse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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