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tiddivate

tiddivate is the obsolete form of titivate.

Meaning of titivate

Verb

titivate (third-person singular simple present titivates, present participle titivating, simple past and past participle titivated)

  1. (transitive) To make small improvements or alterations to (one's appearance etc.); to add some finishing touches to, to spruce up or touch up.
    • Had she spent the best part of a day in titivating herself in order that she might sit plunged in darkness, with nothing but her feet and her nose revealed?1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast

Forms of tiddivate

third-person singular presenttiddivates
present participletiddivating
past participletiddivated
pasttiddivated

Questions about tiddivate

What is tiddivate the obsolete form of?
Tiddivate is the obsolete form of titivate.

Words near tiddivate in the dictionary

  1. tiddier
  2. tiddies
  3. tiddiest
  4. Tiddington
  5. Tiddington-with-Albury
  6. tiddivate
  7. tiddivated
  8. tiddivates
  9. tiddivating
  10. tiddle
  11. tiddled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tiddivate (page history and authors); titivate (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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