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prettying up

prettying up is the present participle and gerund of pretty up.

Meaning of pretty up

Verb

pretty up (third-person singular simple present pretties up, present participle prettying up, simple past and past participle prettied up)

  1. (ambitransitive, informal) To make pretty.
    • Company will be here soon, so I'm going to go now and pretty up.
    Synonyms:
    prettify

Questions about prettying up

What is prettying up the present participle and gerund of?
Prettying up is the present participle and gerund of pretty up.

Words near prettying up in the dictionary

  1. pretty-printer
  2. pretty-printers
  3. pretty-printing
  4. pretty-prints
  5. prettying
  6. prettying up
  7. prettyish
  8. prettyism
  9. prettyisms
  10. Prettyman
  11. Prettymans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prettying up (page history and authors); pretty up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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