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tidy
adjective- large, considerable UK, 1838
As in the song sung by Boy Scouts: “The great meat pie was a tidy size, / And it took a week to make it, / A day to carry it to the shop, / And just a week to bake it”. - [T]he journeyman English footballer for whose services the glamorous Italian club AC Milan paid a tidy sum in the 1980s. — Investors Chronicle, 23 January 2004
- satisfactory; good; decent; correct UK, 1844
Widely exampled by John Edwards, Talk Tidy! (the title is defined in the book as “speak properly!”), 1985. - Told yew, din I. Tidy fuckin E [MDMA], mun, innit. — Niall Griffiths, Sheepshagger, p. 164, 2001
- sexually attractive; sexy UK
- [S]ome jammy bastard seriously getting it on with that tidy bit off the telly (and what a dirty little bitch she must be, eh? Phwoaaar). — Christopher Brookmyre, Boiling a Frog, p. 105, 2000
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