titivate

• “The word titivate apparently was derived from tidy with a quasi-Latin suffix added.”

  Word Fugitives

• “The ball was a neat little matter of fifty-five miles away, across country, so she had to start tolerably early, of course, in order to have comfortable time to "titivate," as Pip expressed it.”

  Seven Little Australians

• “Chelsea bores her, so she takes a private jet to Cannes, gets Katie Price's hairdresser to titivate her, hires a table in a VVIP room for £20k, then strops off home after 20 minutes as someone appears in the room who's not to her suiting.”

  The Guardian: Tamara Ecclestone: Billion $$ Girl – Grace Dent's TV OD

• “If they had any sense, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, on whose northern border this is, would buy it off him, titivate it a bit, and open it as a nineteenth-century museum.”

  Simon & Schuster: Portobello

• “Let me go down and settle whilst you call in your black man and titivate a bit.”

  The Virginians

• “Every day the order would go out to 'titivate the ship,' which meant to 'spruce it up or make it neat and orderly.”

  Word Fugitives

• “From beside the Long Water in the last of the pale sunlight, she came out into Marylebone, and bethought herself that before she went to the Foreign Office she must go where she could titivate.”

  Maid in Waiting

• “But Cai -- on his way upstairs to titivate -- perceived that the lamp was lit and the cloth spread in his own parlour; and, as he noted this with a vague surprise, encountered Mrs Bowldler.”

  Hocken and Hunken

• “You titivate yourself, and we'll dine at the Savoy, or anywhere you please.”

  Tales of the Five Towns

• “They said that when he saw the shearers coming he'd say, "Run and titivate yourself, Mary; here comes the shearers!”

  Children of the Bush

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