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dandy up

dandy up verb: to make fashionable, stylish or flashy in appearance.

Verb

dandy up (third-person singular simple present dandies up, present participle dandying up, simple past and past participle dandied up)

  1. (informal) To make fashionable, stylish or flashy in appearance.
    • But the BBC's insistence meant that he was dragged from his room, dandied up in his best bib and tucker, and stuck in front of a camera to answer crappy questions from Gary Lineker.2005 December 15, Mike Selvey, “England were made to look prize chumps but tour gongs go like that”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC

Forms of dandy up

third-person singular presentdandies up
present participledandying up
past participledandied up
pastdandied up

Questions about dandy up

What does dandy up mean?
Dandy up means to make fashionable, stylish or flashy in appearance.
What part of speech is dandy up?
Dandy up is a verb.
What is the past tense of dandy up?
The past tense of dandy up is dandied up.

Words near dandy up in the dictionary

  1. dandy rollers
  2. dandy rolls
  3. dandy shandy
  4. dandy stick
  5. dandy sticks
  6. dandy up
  7. dandy's stick
  8. dandy-horse
  9. dandy-horses
  10. dandy-roll
  11. dandy-roller

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