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verb (used with object)
1.
to enhance the attractiveness of in a gimmicky, showy manner (usually followed by up): a room gussied up with mirrors and lights.
verb (used without object)
2.
to dress in one's best clothes (usually followed by up): to gussy up for the ball.
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Gussy
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Origin:
1935–40; of obscure origin
1935–40; of obscure origin
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Word Origin & History
gussy
"to dress up or decorate in a showy way," 1952, Amer.Eng. slang, apparently from Gussy (1940), schoolyard slang name for an overly dressed person, perhaps related to gussie (1901) "effeminate man," and somehow connected to the nickname for Augusta and Augustus.
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