fig up

Questions about fig up

What does fig up mean?

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

What is another word for fig up?

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

fig 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.