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Provided by the compucert titivate \TIT-uh-vayt\,
transitive and intransitive verb:
- To make decorative additions to; spruce.
- To make oneself smart or spruce.
Titivate is perhaps from tidy + the quasi-Latin ending -vate. When the word originally came into the language, it was written tidivate or tiddivate. The noun form is titivation.
shoe whore- Someone who owns too many shoes.
- Like a bag hag but obsessed with shoes.
Trivia
What part of the flamingo was considered a great delicacy in ancient Rome?
- The tongue.
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