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Definition of Pretty up
1. Verb. Use special care in dressing, making-up, etc.. "She dolled herself up for the night out with her friends"
Definition of Pretty up
1. Verb. (idiomatic) to prettify, to make pretty or prettier ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pretty Up
Literary usage of Pretty up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1889)
"I — I beg your pardon, sir; I don't mean to be rude," — for it suddenly struck
Billy that this was a pretty up-and-down sort of a way for a little boy to ..."
2. The Genial Showman by Edward Peron Hingston (1881)
"Away in the rear and to the north-west of the pretty up-hill residences, is the
Old Presidio, while to the east is the quaint old Mission Dolores, ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1872)
"... until even the Lieutenant remarked that an old-fashioned country dance would
look very pretty up here, on such a fine piece of green, and with all the ..."
4. Diary of a Tour in Sweden, Norway, and Russia, in 1827 by Leveson-Gower Westminster, Alexander Street Press (1879)
"The walk was very pretty up a very steep path for above a mile, through beautiful
little woods. Eisenach lies in a valley in the middle of wooded hills, ..."
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