do upとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

do up (third-person singular simple present does up, present participle doing up, simple past did up, past participle done up)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To fasten (a piece of clothing, etc.); to tighten (a nut etc.)

   Antonym: undo

   Hyponyms: buckle, buckle up, button, button up, tie, tie up, zip, zip up

   I can't do up my shirt. The button is missing.

   Help me do up this zipper.

   You hold it in place while I do up the nut.

2. (transitive, idiomatic, colloquial) To redecorate (a room, etc.); to make improvements to (a home or domestic property).

   Coordinate terms: gussy up, deck up, doll up

   Near-synonyms: fix up, spruce up, vamp up

   I'm going to do up the living room next.

   They've done up the house so that they can sell it more easily.

   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     If I had been asked what was the rent of the house, I should have said, at the most, not more than twenty pounds, — because, between you and me, it wants a good bit of doing up, and is hardly fit to live in as it stands.

   • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 3:

     So many people were doing up their apartments that supplies of high-grade fixtures and fittings were at a premium.

3. (transitive, idiomatic, informal) To execute a task or performance; to execute it well.

   This time I'm going to do it up right.

   Previously they had cut corners on the dinner menu, but this time they really did it up.

4. (transitive, idiomatic) To pack together and envelop; to pack up, tie up, or both.

   I did up the parcel with string and took it to the post office.

5. (transitive, dated) To accomplish thoroughly.
6. (transitive, archaic) To starch and iron.
   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 20, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:

     a rich gown of velvet, and a ruff done up with the famous yellow starch

7. (slang) To beat up; to physically assault.
8. (transitive) To style (someone's hair); (especially) to give someone (i.e., oneself or another) an updo.

   Hyponym: put up

使用する際の注意点

The object may appear before or after the particle. If the object is a pronoun, then it must be before the particle.

派生語

• done up like a kipper

関連する語

アナグラム

• PUDO, poud, updo