单词 | duded-up |
释义 | duded-upadj. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). Stylish, smart, or eye-catching in appearance; esp. that has been given such an appearance; spruced up, titivated, ‘tarted up’. ΚΠ 1892 Portsmouth (Ohio) Times 6 Feb. 2/3 He also had a boiled shirt on and was otherwise duded-up. 1914 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 28 Jan. 10/6 I stood..a-lookin' at the lights an' the wimmin an' the dooded up gazabos. 1932 Steubenville (Ohio) Herald-Star 27 Oct. 6/6 Following weeks of duded-up foreign cooking, I find myself in the fell clutch of a baked bean fixation. 1962 Pop. Mech. Apr. 92 These dooded-up economy cars..remind us of nice little girls wearing Mom's dress, shoes and lipstick. 2004 J. Hime Scared Money xxv. 91 He knows he looks country compared to all these duded-up Dallasites. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1892 |
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