Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gussy up

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.72 in modern English

Syllables: gussy up
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To don fancy clothing; to dress up particularly in flattering or specially altered garments.

American usage; Informal; Intransitive verb

verb

To make fancy or attractive, as by artificial or contrived means.

American usage; Informal; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"You bet she'll gussy up for the party."
"Not trusting filmgoers to catch the drift, Ms. Coppola underscores the women’s attempts to gussy up with snippets of arch dialogue."
"You can have plain green beans, or gussie them up with a bit of cheese and onion."
"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."
"The trouble arrives when he tries to gussy up his psychologist’s hat with his more elaborate public intellectual’s attire."

Usage

Inflected Forms

gussies up (present, singular) gussying up (participle, present) gussied up (participle, past) gussied up (past) gussie up (alternative)

Synonyms

doll up spruce up overdress dress up fig out fig up deck up fancy up trick up deck out trick out prink

Questions

What does gussy up mean?: To don fancy clothing; to dress up particularly in flattering or specially altered garments.

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