gussied up
Made extra pretty
Gussied up means dressed up or made fancy, often with a suggestion of excessive or showy effort: She got all gussied up for the party.
The phrase implies putting on one's best appearance, sometimes with a hint that the fanciness is a bit much or out of character.
To gussy up a room or document is to embellish or spruce it up.
- dolled upElaborately dressed or adorned
- spruced upMade more attractive
- dressed upWearing formal clothing
- dressed to the ninesExtremely well-attired
- adornedMade ornamental
all dolled up · fancified · dressed to kill · fit to kill · glammed · tarted up · beautified · embellished · prettified · spiffed · smartened · looking sharp · accessorized · dapper · glamorous · decked out · tricked out · polished
- appearance idiomsall dolled up, dolled up, done up, dressed to kill, dressed to the nines
- dressed updressed up, dolled up, decked out, spruced up, glammed up
- Southern dialecty'all, fixin to, bless your heart, reckon, howdy
- alteredmodified, changed, altered, edited, revised
gussied updressed down
Reprimanded or wore casual
plain · casual · unadorned · disheveled · unkempt
gussied upau naturel
Unclothed, in French
natural · unadorned · unpretentious · unvarnished · unpolished
gussied upplain
Basic and unremarkable
unadorned · stripped down · bare · unembellished · simple