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all gussied up. A gusset, (probably from the French gousset, “pod, or shell of nuts”) is a triangular piece of material inserted into a garment to make it more comfortable, and perhaps more fashionable because it fits better. Gusseted means to have a gus- set or gussets in clothing and may have become corrupted in everyday speech to gussied. Someone with many gussets in her dress, many improvements in it, might have been called “all gussied up,” which could have come to mean “to be dressed in one’s best clothes.” This is all guesswork, but it is the best expla- nation we have for the phrase, which dates back to the 17th century. |