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tittivate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb tittivate has 1 sense
- tittivate(v = verb.change) slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce, spruce up, titivate - make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child" is one way to beautify, embellish, fancify, prettify
Derived form noun tittivation1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
tittivate, v. t. & i. [Formed from an uncertain source, in imitation of words in -ate fr. L.].
To dress or smarten up; to spruce.
"“Come here, an' let me titivate you.” He sat down beside her, and submitted to be dusted."
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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