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GUSSY UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
Example:
The young girls were all fancied up for the party
Synonyms:
attire; deck out; deck up; dress up; fancy up; fig out; fig up; get up; gussy up; overdress; prink; rig out; tog out; tog up; trick out; trick up
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "gussy up" is one way to...):
dress; get dressed (put on clothes)
Verb group:
dress; dress up (dress in a certain manner)
costume; dress up (dress in a costume)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "gussy up"):
dress; plume; preen; primp (dress or groom with elaborate care)
prank (dress up showily)
tart up (dress up in a cheap and provocative way)
enrobe (adorn with a robe)
bedizen; dizen (dress up garishly and tastelessly)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
