Gussy up

You bet she'll gussy up for the party.

Not trusting filmgoers to catch the drift, Ms. Coppola underscores the women’s attempts to gussy up with snippets of arch dialogue.

You can have plain green beans, or gussie them up with a bit of cheese and onion.

WWE and WCW gussied up the ritual with a lot of shock-and-awe pyrotechnics and the most innovative use of video graphics this side of MTV. Not so Extreme Championship Wrestling.

The trouble arrives when he tries to gussy up his psychologist’s hat with his more elaborate public intellectual’s attire.