Word of the Day 8

Titivate \TIT-uh-vayt\

transitive and intransitive verb:

1.
To make decorative additions to; spruce.

intransitive verb:

1.
To make oneself smart or spruce.


Origin:
Titivate is perhaps from tidy + the quasi-Latin ending -vate. When the word originally came into the language, it was written tidivate or tiddivate. The noun form is titivation.