titivate (v.)

1805, perhaps from tidy, "with a quasi-Latin ending" [OED] as in cultivate.

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mid-13c., "in good condition, healthy," probably originally "in season, timely, opportune, excellent" (though this sense is not attested until mid-14c.), from tide (n.) in the sense of "season, time" + -y (2). Of persons, "of neat and orderly habits," from 1706. Similar formation in Old High German zitig, German zeitig, Dutch tijdig, Danish tidig "timely," Old English tidlic "temporal," also "timely, seasonable."

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titivate (v.)

make neat, smart, or trim;

titivate the child

Synonyms: spruce up / spruce / tittivate / smarten up / slick up / spiff up

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