fancy up

Questions about fancy up

What does fancy up mean?

fancy up means "put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive".

What is another word for fancy up?

Close synonyms include overdress, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fancy up a common word?

fancy up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.