Meanings
verbdandy up (third-person singular simple present dandies up, present participle dandying up, simple past and past participle dandied up)
present singular third person dandies up · participle present dandying up · participle past dandied up · past dandied up
- informalTo make fashionable, stylish or flashy in appearance.
But the BBC's insistence meant that he was dragged from his room, dandied up in his best bib and tucker, and stuck in front of a camera to answer crappy questions from Gary Lineker.
2005 December 15, Mike Selvey, “England were made to look prize chumps but tour gongs go like that”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC
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