"dandy up" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "dandies up",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "dandying up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dandied up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dandied up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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              66,
              76
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          "ref": "2005 December 15, Mike Selvey, “England were made to look prize chumps but tour gongs go like that”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:",
          "text": "But the BBC's insistence meant that he was dragged from his room, dandied up in his best bib and tucker, and stuck in front of a camera to answer crappy questions from Gary Lineker.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To make fashionable, stylish or flashy in appearance."
      ],
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          "fashionable",
          "fashionable"
        ],
        [
          "stylish",
          "stylish"
        ],
        [
          "flashy",
          "flashy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) To make fashionable, stylish or flashy in appearance."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dandy up"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dandies up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dandying up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dandied up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dandied up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "text": "But the BBC's insistence meant that he was dragged from his room, dandied up in his best bib and tucker, and stuck in front of a camera to answer crappy questions from Gary Lineker.",
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      ],
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        "To make fashionable, stylish or flashy in appearance."
      ],
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          "fashionable",
          "fashionable"
        ],
        [
          "stylish",
          "stylish"
        ],
        [
          "flashy",
          "flashy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) To make fashionable, stylish or flashy in appearance."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
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  "word": "dandy up"
}