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    GUSSY UP

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractiveplay

    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

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