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Definition of Spruced up
1. Adjective. Dressed in fancy or formal clothing.
Similar to: Clad, Clothed
Definition of Spruced up
1. Verb. (past of spruce up) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spruced Up
Literary usage of Spruced up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Courts of Europe at the Close of the Last Century by Henry Swinburne (1895)
"that he had cleaned and spruced up, which had its effect; he gave £9000 for it
five years ago, and has taken ..."
2. The Blue Jeans of Hoppertown by Roy K. Moulton (1908)
"I hardly knowed Main street at all, it has spruced up so much. All rigged out
with them gold leaf signs and mail boxes and such. Them high cross walks that ..."
3. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (1998)
"... a block of nicely spruced-up Lower East Side tenements running east to west,
their heights uneven, their faces mostly brick, some painted and some not. ..."
4. American English by Gilbert Milligan Tucker (1921)
"SPRUCE BEER. "Many shall have more spruce beer in their bellies than wit in their
heads."—Nashe, Prognostication, 11 (1591). spruced up—Well dressed. ..."
5. American English by Gilbert Milligan Tucker (1921)
"spruced up—Well dressed. "Salmacis would not be seen till she had spruced up."
—Anatomy of Melancholy, 3.2.4.1 (1621). ..."
6. The Terror by Félix Gras (1898)
"He means to marry her, that spruced-up flea does, ... and as she held that the
fortune which the "spruced-up flea" intended in this way to acquire belonged ..."
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