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单词 gussied up
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  • But whether these gussied-up chicken nuggets helps boost sales, foot traffic or market share is almost beside the point.

    Domino’s Fried-Chicken Pizza Means We’ve Hit Peak Food Trolling|Daniel Gross|April 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST

  • My Lecter-like sense of smell tells me this gussied-up stinker has the whiff of “hit” all over it.

    ‘Hannibal’: Ken Tucker on His Lack of Appetite for NBC’s Serial-Killer Drama|Ken Tucker|April 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST

gussied up

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Also, all gussied up. Dressed up, as in Dana loves to get all gussied up and go to a fine restaurant. The origin of this expression is not clear, though possibly it relates to the earlier use of the noun gussie (derived from a proper name) for an effeminate man. [Slang; mid-1900s]

Words nearby gussied up

gush, gusher, gushy, gusset, Gussie, gussied up, gussy, gussy up, gust, gustation, gustative
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Words related to gussied up

garish, splashy, ostentatious, brilliant, jazzy, flashy, snazzy, showy, repair, overhaul, restore, redo, update, revamp, renovate, rehabilitate, recondition, fix up, modernize, remodel
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