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Pretty Up

Definition: Pretty Up

Pretty Up

Verb

1. Use special care in dressing, making-up, etc.; "She dolled herself up for the night out with her friends".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Pretty Up

Synonyms: do up (v), doll up (v), glam up (v). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Pretty Up

Language Translations for "pretty up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

embellir. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ettypray upay

   

Russian 

  

приукрашивать (embellish, embroider, gloss over, smarten, sugar coat). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

snygga till (sanitize). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sevimli bir hava vermek, güzelleştirmek (adorn, beautify, do up, embellish, face-lift, gild, perk up, prettify). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Pretty Up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-p-p-r-t-t-u-y"

-2 letters: pretty, putter.

-3 letters: erupt, petty, putty, rutty, tuyer, upper, utter.

-4 letters: perp, pert, prep, prey, pure, putt, pyre, repp, tret, trey, true, tyer, type, typp, tyre, yett, yurt.

-5 letters: pep, per, pet, pry, pup, pur, put, pye, rep, ret, rue, rut, rye, tet, try, tup, tut, tye, yep, yet, yup.

 Words containing the letters "e-p-p-r-t-t-u-y"
 

+2 letters: perpetuity.

 

+3 letters: postpuberty.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Pretty Up


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 72 65 74 74 79      55 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110010 01100101 01110100 01110100 01111001 00100000 01010101 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#101 &#116 &#116 &#121 &#32 &#85 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0065 0074 0074 0079      0055 0070

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50847186869125582

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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