keeper

hoitaja

vartija One who keeps something.

Finders keepers; losers weepers.

"Okay, that's a keeper," Harold said as he netted the 3-pounder and put him on a stringer over the side of the boat.

When he brought me home and volunteered to come with me while I walked my dog, Max, I knew he was a keeper.

We hadn't dated for long when he said those three magic words: "I'll cook tonight." I knew he was a keeper.

I see that it is good; now make we man to our likeness, that shall be keeper of mere & leas(ow), of fowls and fish in flood.

And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

discreet; chaste; keepers at home

I was not altogether surprised: they seemed to be, even more than people in the surrounding wolds, stolid keepers-to-themselves, impossible to stir, dourly determined to stick to the firm routine of their lives(..)

The Roxbury Russet is a good keeper.

And mark you, good keepers are some years bad keepers, as this year; and a hard, heavy, unbruisable Apple that really will keep to late on in the season is doubly valuable.