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Definition of Tog up
1. Verb. Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive. "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"
Specialized synonyms: Dress, Plume, Preen, Primp, Prank, Tart Up, Enrobe, Bedizen, Dizen
Related verbs: Dress, Dress Up, Costume, Dress Up
Generic synonyms: Dress, Get Dressed
Derivative terms: Attire, Getup, Rigout
Also: Dress
Antonyms: Dress Down, Underdress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tog Up
Literary usage of Tog up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A glossary of French slang by Olivier Leroy (1922)
"To dress, tog up. fringues, sb. f. pl. Clothes, togs. frio, adj. Chilly, nippy,
parky. fripouille, sb. f. and adj. Scoundrel, cad, blackguard. frere, ..."
2. A Glossary of French Slang by Olivier Leroy (1922)
"To dress, tog up. fringues, sb. f. pl. Clothes, togs. frio, adj. Chilly, nippy,
parky. fripouille, sb. f. and adj. Scoundrel, cad, blackguard. frere, ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"... thing As I wanted to put the last touch to my brand new tog-up for the Spring.
DEAR CHARLIE, Which if I 've a taste—arter gals and good smokes—'tis for ..."
4. The Bookman (1903)
"tog up a bit. It doesn't cos'ta mint and it does help. I'll leave it to the crowd."
"The crowd" supported Draper, and Jud could but see the wisdom in their ..."
5. Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery by John Peter De Gex, John Jackson Smale, Great Britain Court of Chancery, James Lewis Knight Bruce (1852)
"The proper mode of disputing that proposition is by an application to discharge
the order for wind- tog up the Company. On an appeal from the Master as to ..."
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