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Definition of Trick 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 Trick Up
Literary usage of Trick up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1850)
"... begin to trick up, and to have a good opinion of themselves, ... the common
humour of all suitors to trick up themselves, to be prodigal in apparel, ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomsm by Robert Burton (1850)
"... begin to trick up, and to have a good opinion of themselves, ... the common
humour of all suitors to trick up themselves, to be prodigal in apparel, ..."
3. Bacon's Nova Resuscitatio; Or, The Unveiling of His Concealed Works and Travels by Walter Begley (1905)
"to trick up a company of taffety fools with their feathers. ... What sweet
gentleman was more likely to ' trick up ' the actors with what they required than ..."
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