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Do you know what tittivate means?

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PCPlumsTruncheon · 16/09/2018 02:57

Very very long backstory but my DM and DF went to visit DD today and then came to see me and told me that DD had planned a morning of tittivating as she was going to a wedding reception but her plans were thwarted by the water being cut off.
I am a bit of a grammar/spelling geek but had genuinely never heard of this word and thought that DM was getting it mixed up with ‘tittilate’.
How many of you (without Googling) know what this word means?

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HollowTalk · 16/09/2018 15:55

It's titivate, though.

PatriciaHolm · 16/09/2018 16:32

Yep! My mum used to use it a lot (Norfolk born and bred).

crumpet · 16/09/2018 16:35

Very useful word - can be used for almost anything

SausageOnAFork · 16/09/2018 17:49

Yes my mum would use it for anything from plumping the cushions to redecorating - along with a near-synonym that I've never known how to spell - 'zjuzj up'?

Oh yes. I use jujsh up too.
But then clearly I must be old fashioned as I also use titivate.

To me jujsh (which I wonder might not be a Yiddish word) means to just tidy up and make presentable, where as titivate would mean adding something new.

redfairy · 16/09/2018 18:06

Well I knew what titivate was but I've just had to look up cromulent Grin

Justkeeprollingalong · 16/09/2018 21:55

I'm a Geordie and use both titivate and zjuzj (by sure about spelling).

Justkeeprollingalong · 16/09/2018 21:56

(But not sure). MUMSNET EDIT BUTTON PLEASE!

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