2. Adjective. (comparative of tidy) ¹
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Definition of Tidier
1. one that tidies [n -S] - See also: tidies
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tidier
Literary usage of Tidier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Play-wrights, Players, and by William Davenport Adams (1904)
"At the Adelphi In 1872 he was Tracy tidier in HJ Byron's 'Mabel's Life.' Then came
employment at the Criterion ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"tidier.—I'll not deny that I like a fresh bone, not too cleanly picked beforehand,
... tidier.—Nor, sir have I ; but I think he somewhere speaks of a man ..."
3. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 by Fanny Kemble (1864)
"The smallest Yankee farmer has a tidier estate, a tidier house, and a tidier wife
than this member of the proud Southern chivalry, who, however, ..."
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