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Definition
gussy
¦ verb (gussies, gussying, gussied) (gussy someone/thing up) N. Amer. informal make someone or something more attractive, especially in a showy way.
Origin
1940s: perh. from Gussie, familiar form of the given name Augustus.
Wikipedia
Gussie
Gussie is a shortened version of the given names Augustus, Augusta, Gustave and others.
Examples of use of Gussie
1. But for every child, there was also someone like Gussie Pendleton of Philadelphia.
2. Gussie Moran’s lace panties in 1'4' are the most famous but Suzanne Lenglen wore short skirts in 1'22 and Alice Marble shorts a decade later.
3. G. Wodehouse Society, spending a week at the Paris Ritz in spats and a monocle as Gussie Fink–Nottleski, and charging the whole thing to my account?
4. "She just wants to know what weve been saying about her ahead of the inevitable recriminations, lawsuit and ritual slaughter of little Gussies pet rabbit in a vat of boiling water." 3'th over: England 262-3 (Strauss '8, Collingwood 47) A lovely lofted off-drive by Collingwood helps make it eight off the over.
