,adjective, spruc⋅er, spruc⋅est, verb, spruced, spruc⋅ing.| 1. | trim in dress or appearance; neat; smart; dapper. |
| 2. | to make spruce or smart (often fol. by up): Spruce up the children before the company comes. |
| 3. | to make oneself spruce (usually fol. by up). |

spruce up
Make neat and trim, as in She spruced up the chairs with new cushions. This idiom originated in the late 1500s as simply spruce but had acquired up by 1676.