gussy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
1952, apparently from Gussy (adjective), schoolyard slang for “overly dressed” (1940); perhaps related to gussie (“effeminate man”) (1901) and somehow connected to Gussie, the nickname for Augusta and Augustus.[1][2][3][4]
Verb[edit]
gussy (third-person singular simple present gussies, present participle gussying, simple past and past participle gussied)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ “gussy”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.: “Perhaps from Australian slang gussie, an effeminate man, from Gussie”
- ^ “gussy up”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.: “probably from the name Gussie”
- ^ “gussy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022: “perhaps from Gussie”.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “gussy”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.