Brewer's: Titivate

(3 syl.). To tidy up; to dress up; to set in order. “Titi” is a variant of tidy; and “vate” is an affix, from the Latin vado (to go), meaning “to go and do something.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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