Word of the Day for Thursday, October 8, 2009
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titivate \TIT-uh-vayt\, transitive and intransitive verb:
titivate \TIT-uh-vayt\, transitive and intransitive verb:
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1. To make decorative additions to; spruce.
1. To make decorative additions to; spruce.
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intransitive verb:
intransitive verb:
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1. To make oneself smart or spruce.
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The B.O. is a titivating snollygoster!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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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.
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.
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