titivate \TIT-uh-vayt\,
transitive and intransitive verb:
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.
- Someone who owns too many shoes.
- Like a bag hag but obsessed with shoes.
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- Eddie Rickenbacker 1890
- Juan Peron 1895
- Billy Conn 1917
- Rona Barrett 1936
- Fred Stolle 1938
- Paul Hogan 1939
- David Carradine 1940
- Fred Cash (The Impressions) 1940
- Jesse Jackson 1941
- George Bellamy (The Tornados) 1941
- Buzz Clifford 1942
- R.L. Stine 1943
- Chevy Chase 1943
- Susan Raye 1944
- Tony Wilson (Hot Chocolate) 1947
- Sarah Purcell 1948
- Brian Glenwright 1949
- Sigourney Weaver 1949
- Hamish Stuart (Average White Band) 1949
- Robert "Kool" Bell (Kool & the Gang) 1950
- Johnny Cummings (Ramones) 1951
- Ricky Lee Phelps (Brother Phelps) 1953
- Michael Dudikoff 1954
- Darrell Hammond 1955
- Stephanie Zimbalist 1956
- Mitch Marine (Tripping Daisy) 1961
- Steve Perry (Cherry Poppin' Daddies) 1963
- C.J. Ward (The Ramones) 1965
- Teddy Riley 1966
- Emily Proctor 1968
- Jeremy Davies 1969 - Actor ("Lost", "Saving Private Ryan")
- Matt Damon 1970 - Actor
- Kristanna Loken 1979
- Byron Reeder (Mista) 1979
- Nick Cannon 1980
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