spiffed up

Questions about spiffed up

What does spiffed up mean?

spiffed up means "dressed in fancy or formal clothing".

What is another word for spiffed up?

Close synonyms include dressed, dressed-up, dressed to the nines, dressed to kill, dolled 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 spiffed up a common word?

spiffed up is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.