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.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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