GUSSY UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gussy up mean? 

• GUSSY UP (verb)
  The verb GUSSY UP has 1 sense:

1. put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive

  Familiarity information: GUSSY UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUSSY UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

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

Context example:

The young girls were all fancied up for the party

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