Verb
gussy (third-person singular simple present gussies, present participle gussying, simple past and past participle gussied)
(chiefly US) To dress up or decorate in a showy way.
If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels. Charlie Pierce