gussy, v. slang.
(ˈgʌsɪ)
[Cf. gussie2.]
With up: to smarten up. Hence ˈgussied ppl. a.; ˈgussy a.
| 1940 M. Marples Public School Slang 126 Gussy: of over-dressed persons. 1952 in Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (1960) 236 When I get all gussied up, somebody says, ‘Pull in your pot!’ 1959 M. Chamberlin Dear Friends & Darling Romans (1960) iv. 41 The French have gussied up their Riviera, so you can't see the foliage for the freaks. 1960 J. Kirkwood There must be Pony (1961) viii. 65 She was all gussied up..she looked very attractive. 1963 Spectator 1 Mar. 260 Dressy, not to say gussied-up. 1970 M. G. Eberhart El Rancho Rio (1971) iii. 23 ‘You're really all gussied up... Coast slang for dressed up,’ she explained. |