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Do up   /du əp/   Listen
Do up

verb
1.
Wrap for decorative purposes.
2.
Use special care in dressing, making-up, etc..  Synonyms: doll up, glam up, pretty up.






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"Do up" Quotes from Famous Books



... antifeminist. Why can men live and move and have their beings satisfactorily incased in soft garments, easy to iron, comfortable to wear, and why must women have everything starched and trying on the soul to do up? One minute you iron a soft nightshirt; the next a nightgown starched like a board, and the worst thing to get through with before it dries too much that ever appears ...
— Working With the Working Woman • Cornelia Stratton Parker

... wish that I could leap and dance so, mamma! away! away! but I am so tired; I am always tired. I long to hop about as the birds do up in the trees there, and sing and be merry; but I am ...
— Gritli's Children • Johanna Spyri

... something for their work. there are women here cookeing for $1.50 and $2.00 a week. I would like to live in Chicago or Ohio or Philadelphia. Tell Mr Abbott that our pepel are tole that they can not get anything to do up there and they are being snatched off the trains here in Greenville and a rested but in spite of all this, they are leaving every day and every night 100 or more is expecting to leave this week. Let me here from you ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 • Various

... We kin lick anything else on ther face of ther earth, but we can't do up that battery. I've read all about Frank Merriwell, an' there ain't nothin' walks on two legs what kin ...
— Frank Merriwell's Cruise • Burt L. Standish

... house are all out," he said, after their first greeting. "In that room you will find a peasant girl's dress. Dress yourself as quickly as you can; we shall be ready for you in attire to match. You had best do up your own things into a bundle, which I will carry. If they were left here they might, when the news of your being missing gets abroad, afford a clue to the manner of your escape. I will tell you all about the arrangements we have ...
— By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604) • G.A. Henty


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