titivation

Variant of titivate

titivate definition

titi·vate (tit′ə vāt′)

transitive verb, intransitive verb titivated -·vat′ed, titivating -·vat′·ing

to dress up; spruce up

Etymology: earlier tidivate, tiddivate, prob. < tidy, with quasi-Latin suffix

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