titivate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Modification of earlier spelling tidivate, perhaps based on tidy + -vate, on the pattern of words like cultivate and renovate.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
titivate (third-person singular simple present titivates, present participle titivating, simple past and past participle titivated)
- To make small improvements or alterations to (one's appearance etc.); to add some finishing touches to, to spruce up or touch up.
- 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast:
- Had she spent the best part of a day in titivating herself in order that she might sit plunged in darkness, with nothing but her feet and her nose revealed?
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Translations[edit]
to make small improvements to
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