spruce

1. (comparable) Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).Examples: "Hovv often vvould the Svvaines prepare their Morrice & their May / To haue a ſight of her, vvhen all enamoured vvent their vvay? / The ſprevvſeſt Citie-Lads for her vvould faine the Countrie-aire, / And that their prouder Girles had but adultrate beauties ſvvaire, […]"; "[A] baker's boy in a white apron and blue jumpers went by carrying a basket of bread on his head; and from the nearby tobacconist's, a spruce young lieutenant dressed in a black uniform emerged lighting a cigarette."; "He had great neatness of person, and he continued to wear his spruce black coat and his bowler hat, always a little too small for him, in a dapper, jaunty manner."Synonyms: pulchritudinouscomparable

1. (usually with up) To arrange neatly; tidy up.Synonyms: prettify, neaten, titivateusuallywith-up

2. (ambitransitive, usually with up) To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).ambitransitiveusuallywith-up

1. (obsolete) Prussia.obsolete