Reverse Dictionary: SPRUCE

ADJECTIVES
► BAITED FOR WIDOW spruced up; dressed to catch the attention of widows or other women → 1960 Amer. dial.
► DINK neat, nice, finely dressed, trim, spruce → 1721 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► FEAT-BODIED having a feat or trim body, neat, spruce → 1750 obs.
► GALLIARD having a gay appearance, spruce → 1513 obs.
► GEMMY spruce, neat, smart; neatly-made; dexterous → 1750 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► GIM smart, spruce, fine, neat, pretty → 1513 obs. exc. Eng dial.
► GIMMY ► JEMMY ► JIMMY spruce, neat, smart; neatly-made; dexterous → 1750 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► JAM neat, smart, spruce → 1896 sl. (Bk.)
► JIMP neat in attire, tidy; spruce; slender, elegant → a1513 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► NATTY fashionable, spruce → 1557 colloq.
► NUTTY smart, spruce, attractive → 1785 sl.
► PENSY tidy in dress and appearance; spruce, neat → a1806 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► POVIE spruce and self-conceited → 19C Sc.
► SMICKER gay, spruce → 1589 obs.
► SMIRK neat, trim, spruce in dress or appearance; pleasant; agreeable; smug → 1534
► SMUG of males: trim, neat, spruce, smart; later, having a self-satisfied, conceited or consciously respectable air → 1551
► SNIPTIOUS spruce, attractive; fastidious; lively, pert → 1827 Amer. dial.
► SPRUNNY neat, spruce, smart → 1733 Eng. dial. 
► SPRUNT brisk, active; smart, spruce → 1631 obs.

ADVERBS
► SPRUNTLY smartly, sprucely → 1631 obs.

NOUNS
► FEATNESS elegance, shapeliness, spruceness, trimness → 1576
► JEMMINESS spruceness, neatness, trimness → 1756
► NATTINESS neatness; tidiness; spruceness → colloq.
► SPRUCERY 1. the notional department responsible for spruceness or neatness → 1603 humorous usage, obs.
2. a being spruce; spruceness → 1813 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BLADE a gallant, an easygoing fellow, a good fellow; also, a spruce or dashing fellow; sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless fellow; a beau → 1597
► GIMCRACK a pert young woman; a spruce wench → c1698 UK sl.
► NATTY a spruce, smart person; a dandy → 1818 sl.
► SMIRK a finical, spruce fellow → 1699 sl., obs.
► SPRUSADO a smartly-dressed person; a spruce fellow; a dandy → 1665 obs.

VERBS
► BLITZ IT to polish or spruce up with vigour and speed → World War II Amer. sl.
► CIVILIZE to spruce up in dress → 1920 Amer. dial.
► DAN UP to spruce up → 2003 Trinidad and Tobago sl.
► MUNDIFY to make oneself neat or smart; to spruce oneself up → 1568 obs.
► SMART UP to make smart or spruce; to improve in appearance or style → 1780 colloq.
► SMIRK to trim up; to make neat or spruce → 1596 obs.
► TITIVATE ► TITTIVATE to make small alterations to one’s toilet, etc. so as to add to one’s attractions; to make smart or spruce; to ‘touch up’ in the way of adornment, to put the finishing touches to → 1805