titivate

Sep. 15th, 2005 06:57 am
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titivate - v., to smarten up, spruce up, tidy; to make decorative additions to.


Probably from tidy + -vate (as a pseudoLatin ending) — its original spelling was tidivate. Despite that, pronounced with short i's. Usually colloquial or humorous usage.

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