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Dressed-up   /drɛst-əp/   Listen
Dressed-up

adjective
1.
Dressed in fancy or formal clothing.  Synonyms: dolled up, dressed, dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, spiffed up, spruced up, togged up.






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"Dressed-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... pretty sight? Cost a pretty sight o' the People's money, I know that. Tomfoolery, that's what it is; a set of dressed-up bullies dancin' quadrilles on 'orseback; that ain't military manoeuvrin'. It's sickenin' the way fools applaud such goins on. And cuttin off the Saracen's 'ed, too; I'd call it plucky if the Saracen 'ad a gun in his 'and. Bah, I ate the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, July 5, 1890 • Various

... winter evenings were often dull enough. Sometimes, indeed, they would all join in some regular indoor boys' game like "baste the bear," or "high-cockolorum"; or they would have amusing "ghost-hunts," as they called them, after some dressed-up boy among the dark corridors and staircases. This was good fun, but at other times they got tired of games, and could not get them up, and then numbers of boys felt the idle time hang heavy on their hands. When ...
— Eric, or Little by Little • Frederic W. Farrar



Words linked to "Dressed-up" :   clothed, clad



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