Usually means: Make more attractive or fancy.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word gussy:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. gussy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. gussy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. gussy: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Gussy, gussy: Wordnik
  5. gussy: Wiktionary
  6. gussy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. gussy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. gussy: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. gussy: Dictionary.com
  10. gussy (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. gussy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. gussy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gussy: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gussy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See gussied as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gussy)

▸ verb:  (chiefly US) To dress up or decorate in a showy way.
▸ noun:  (Internet slang, vulgar, humorous) The vagina of a woman.
▸ noun:  (Internet slang, vulgar, humorous, LGBTQ) The anus of a woman, especially but not exclusively a trans woman.

Similar:
gussie up, gaud, girt, begaud, gurn, gizzing, gormandize, gypsify, gorm, gaiter, more...

Opposite:
plain, unadorned, unembellished

Phrases:
gussy up, more...

Adjectives:
poor, dear, old, great, little, juvenile
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Similar:
gussie up, gaud, girt, begaud, gurn, gizzing, gormandize, gypsify, gorm, gaiter, more...

Opposite:
plain, unadorned, unembellished

Phrases:
gussy up, more...

Adjectives:
poor, dear, old, great, little, juvenile



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