gussy up
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Verb edit
gussy up (third-person singular simple present gussies up, present participle gussying up, simple past and past participle gussied up) (chiefly US)
- (informal, intransitive) To don fancy clothing; to dress up particularly in flattering or specially altered garments.
- Synonym: doll up
- You bet she'll gussy up for the party.
- (informal, transitive) To make fancy or attractive, as by artificial or contrived means.
- Synonym: spruce up
- You can have plain green beans, or gussie them up with a bit of cheese and onion.
- 2006, Thomas Hackett, Slaphappy: Pride, Prejudice, and Professional Wrestling, New York, NY: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 22:
- WWE and WCW gussied up the ritual with a lot of shock-and-awe pyrotechnics and the most innovative use of video graphics this side of MTV. Not so Extreme Championship Wrestling.
Translations edit
dress up
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Further reading edit
- Jonathon Green (2024) “gussy up v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang