fig out

Questions about fig out

What does fig out mean?

fig out means "put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive".

What is another word for fig out?

Close synonyms include overdress, dress up, fig up, deck up, gussy 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 fig out a common word?

fig out 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.