doodie up

English

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Verb

doodie up (third-person singular simple present doodies up, present participle doodying up, simple past and past participle doodied up)

1. (US, slang) To decorate or dress in a fancy way in order to make attractive.
   • 2009, Kathryn Stockett, The Help, →ISBN:

     All over that big ole doodied up house she walks and talks and I follow.

   • 1985, Jane Willis, Men Without Dates; And, Slam!: Two One-act Plays, →ISBN, page 48:

     By the time they're seniors they don't get doodied up anymore to come into the Duane Reade.

   • 2010, Ray E. Murray, Moses' Rod, →ISBN, page 15:

     When I went inside, there was this very pretty blond headed lady in a nice dress and her hair all doodied up.