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English translation: to soup up / to spiff up

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German term or phrase:	aufgebrezelt
English translation:	to soup up / to spiff up
Entered by:	Paula Price

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20:29 Dec 6, 2006

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Marketing - Advertising / Public Relations

German term or phrase: aufgebrezelt

Das Produkt hält sich an Standards und funktioniert mit anderen Server-basierenden Skriptsprachen wie PHP. Der Hersteller YYYY hat damit bereits seine Website aufgebrezelt und will – bei minimaler Lernkurve – den Traffic darauf nahezu verdoppelt haben.

Paula Price KudoZ activity Questions: 1342 (4 open) (1 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 95
Local time: 13:05

to soup up / to spiff up

Explanation:
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Selected response from:

ntext
United States
Local time: 07:05

Grading comment

Thanks a lot!
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Summary of answers provided

4 +5

to soup up / to spiff up

ntext

to dress up

Lisa Nottmeyer

polished

Stephen Sadie

tarted up

BirgitBerlin

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

6 mins confidence:

to dress up

Explanation:
Example:

"Still, for someone with a small budget who wants to dress up a website with some finance bling, a free stock chart or quote list from Google could be handy"

www.irwebreport.com/daily/2006/10/04/free-finance-gadgets-a...

and for explaining the German term:

aufbrezeln: sich schick machen
entnommen aus: "Wörterbuch der Jugendsprache" von www.pons.de/jugendsprache

Lisa Nottmeyer
Spain
Local time: 14:05
Native speaker of:

German

17 mins confidence:

tarted up

Explanation:
tart = aufgebrezeltes Mädchen
Der Ton ist hier betont colloquial, also passt "tarted up" besser.

BirgitBerlin
Germany
Local time: 14:05
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in category: 27

31 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

aufbrezeln

to soup up / to spiff up

Explanation:
*

ntext
United States
Local time: 07:05
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English,

German
PRO pts in category: 133

Grading comment

Thanks a lot!

52 mins confidence:

polished

Explanation:
another option which could well work here

Stephen Sadie
Germany
Local time: 14:05
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 116

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Changes made by editors

Aug 3, 2007 - Changes made by ntext:
Field	Bus/Financial => Marketing
Field (specific)	IT (Information Technology) => Advertising / Public Relations

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