Usage examples (23)

• The word titivate apparently was derived from tidy with a quasi-Latin suffix added.
• Let me go down and settle whilst you call in your black man and titivate a bit.
• Every day the order would go out to 'titivate the ship,' which meant to 'spruce it up or make it neat and orderly.'
• If they had any sense, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, on whose northern border this is, would buy it off him, titivate it a bit, and open it as a...