gussy up

Questions about gussy up

What does gussy up mean?

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

What is another word for gussy 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 gussy up a common word?

gussy 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.