spruce up
To dress or arrange smartly, elegantly, and neatly; to smarten.
noun
Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
The wood of a spruce.
Made of the wood of the spruce.
That spruce table is beautiful!
Prussian leather; pruce.
adj
Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).
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.
verb
To arrange neatly; tidy up.
To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).
To tease.