Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - gussy
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(gussies gussying gussied) • gussy up If someone is gussied up, they are dressed very smartly. If something is gussied up, it is made more interesting or attractive. (mainly AM INFORMAL) They all got gussied up. ...plans to gussy up the venues, offering better food and games arcades. PHRASAL VERB: V-ed P, V P n (not pron), also V pron P ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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- 1952, Amer.Eng. slang, apparently from Gussy (1940), name for an overly dressed person, perhaps related to gussie (1901) "effeminate man," and somehow connected to the nickname for Augusta and Augustus. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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