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Tittivate   Listen
verb
Tittivate, Titivate  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. titivated; pres. part. titivating)  To dress or smarten up; to spruce. (Both Humorous) ""Come here, an' let me titivate you." He sat down beside her, and submitted to be dusted."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tittivate" Quotes from Famous Books



... too, and down I came into the slush; and when I got out of it, I can tell you I didn't look much like the Venuses or the Apollor Belvidearis what I used to dress and titivate up for my shop window when I was in the hairdressing line, or smell quite so elegant as our rose-oil. Faugh! what a ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray

... girl there—I don't know whether she was his daughter or not. They said that when he saw the shearers coming he'd say, "Run and titivate yourself, Mary; here comes ...
— Children of the Bush • Henry Lawson



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