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Definition of Smarten up
1. Verb. Make neat, smart, or trim. "Titivate the child"
Generic synonyms: Beautify, Embellish, Fancify, Prettify
Derivative terms: Titivation, Tittivation
2. Verb. Dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion. "He spruced up for the party"
Definition of Smarten up
1. Verb. To wear smart clothes and look more stylish ¹
2. Verb. To make, or to become, less stupid or naive ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smarten Up
Literary usage of Smarten up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A glossary of French slang by Olivier Leroy (1922)
"To repair, to put to rights, to smarten up. oneself up. 2. Vb. pr. (a) To dress
oneself anew, to smarten up wonderfully. ..."
2. A Glossary of French Slang by Olivier Leroy (1922)
"To repair, to put to rights, to smarten up. 2. Vb. pr. (a) To dress oneself anew,
to smarten oneself up. (b) To recover. Il s'est bien requinque', ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1872)
"Mrs. Morgan had kept her to smarten up,—and really she was a credit to them, so
clean, and bright, and rosy-faced. At first she was shy of my grand ..."
4. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1884)
"... saying that the Branders would like Kirsty best just as she was—she knew the
ways of the gentry—the girl could smarten up afterwards. ..."
5. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1882)
"Recruits must be eighteen to twenty-five years of age; they will smarten up a
man of thirty, make him shave off his whiskers, get his hair cut short, ..."
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