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Definition of Touch up
1. Verb. Alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance. "This photograph has been retouched!"
Definition of Touch up
1. Verb. (idiomatic) to make slight corrections or adjustments; to fill in or perfect ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) To fondle or to grope someone in flirtatious or sleazy way ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Touch Up
Literary usage of Touch up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by Seventh-Day Adventists General Conference. Dept. of Education (1912)
"touch up the edges with chalk, and add the stars. (See Lesson 11, page 178.)
Plate IV may be used for Lesson 24 or 25 — a blended light in a sky behind a ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"touch up (To). To touch a horse with a whip for greater speed. To touch up a
picture, etc., is to give it a few touches to improve it. Touch and Go (A). ..."
3. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1842)
"something,—I 'll touch up the features of his face a bit; where shall I begin ?
Let's see,—oh ! I 'll begin with his wig—wig, indeed I—stuff! they don't ..."
4. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1916)
"Beat some oil, ground white lead and lamp-black up in this oil and turpentine
and with a small round brush touch up the spots. Next get some dry white lead ..."
5. Spons' Mechanics' Own Book: A Manual for Handicraftsmen and Amateurs by Spon (1901)
"... touch up «vith thin white on a feather ; soften as before ; add the glaze
colour, and touch up tho main vein with ivory black on a pencil. ..."
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