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Titivate

verb
(past & past part. titivated; pres. part. titivating)
1.
Make neat, smart, or trim.  Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce, spruce up, tittivate.  "Titivate the child"






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"Titivate" Quotes from Famous Books



... the smut on her nose," said Lalage. "What I want you to do is to keep her in play till I get back. I sha'n't be long, but it's not possible to start Pussy Battersby off on the first hop. She'll want to titivate a little." ...
— Lalage's Lovers - 1911 • George A. Birmingham

... had scarcely worn the suit at all, but that afternoon his father had sent him over to Hanbridge about a large order from Bostocks, the recently established drapers there whose extravagant advertising had shocked and pained the commerce of the Five Towns. Darius had told him to 'titivate himself,' a most startling injunction from Darius, and thus the new costly suit had been, as it were, officially blessed and henceforth could ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett



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