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"To don fancy clothing; to dress up particularly in flattering or specially altered garments."
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"(informal, intransitive) To don fancy clothing; to dress up particularly in flattering or specially altered garments."
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"sense": "dress up",
"word": "opdirken"
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"word": "pynttääntyä"
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"sense": "dress up",
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"sense": "dress up",
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"roman": "prinarjažátʹsja",
"sense": "dress up",
"word": "принаряжа́ться"
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"(informal, transitive) To make fancy or attractive, as by artificial or contrived means."
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"word": "spruce up"
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"text": "Not trusting filmgoers to catch the drift, Ms. Coppola underscores the women’s attempts to gussy up with snippets of arch dialogue.",
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"(informal, intransitive) To don fancy clothing; to dress up particularly in flattering or specially altered garments."
],
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"word": "doll up"
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"ref": "2006, Thomas Hackett, Slaphappy: Pride, Prejudice, and Professional Wrestling, New York, NY: HarperCollins, page 22",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2021 September 29, Jennifer Szalai, “In ‘Rationality,’ Steven Pinker Sticks Up (Again) for Reason’s Role in Human Progress”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "The trouble arrives when he tries to gussy up his psychologist’s hat with his more elaborate public intellectual’s attire.",
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],
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "dress up",
"word": "opdirken"
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{
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "dress up",
"word": "pynttääntyä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "dress up",
"word": "fagoter"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "dress up",
"word": "aufbrezeln"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "dress up",
"tags": [
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"word": "wystroić się"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "dress up",
"tags": [
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"word": "stroić się"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prinarjažátʹsja",
"sense": "dress up",
"word": "принаряжа́ться"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dress up",
"word": "arreglarse"
},
{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "dress up",
"word": "embellecer"
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],
"word": "gussy up"
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