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fancy up

fancy up verb: to make more stylish, neat, or extravagant.

Verb

fancy up (third-person singular simple present fancies up, present participle fancying up, simple past and past participle fancied up)

  1. To make more stylish, neat, or extravagant

Forms of fancy up

third-person singular presentfancies up
present participlefancying up
past participlefancied up
pastfancied up

Questions about fancy up

What does fancy up mean?
Fancy up means to make more stylish, neat, or extravagant.
What part of speech is fancy up?
Fancy up is a verb.
What is the past tense of fancy up?
The past tense of fancy up is fancied up.

Words near fancy up in the dictionary

  1. fancy stitches
  2. fancy stock
  3. fancy stocks
  4. fancy that
  5. fancy trade
  6. fancy up
  7. fancy-free
  8. fancy-pants
  9. fancy-schmancier
  10. fancy-schmanciest
  11. fancy-schmancy

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