bedizen
verbEtymology
PIE word *h₁epi From be- (intensifying prefix) + dizen (“to attire, dress, especially showily”). Dizen is derived from dialectal dize (“to put (tow) on a distaff”), probably from Middle English *disen, from Old English *disan, *disian, from *dise, *disen (“bunch of flax on a distaff”), from Proto-Germanic *disanō (“distaff”); further etymology unknown.
Definitions
To dress or ornament (someone or something), especially in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless…
To dress or ornament (someone or something), especially in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner.
- Thus the Violet that gayly bedizens the Mead / A fragrance more ſvveet does ſupply, / Tho' oft' rudely bruſh'd by the Traveller's tread, / Than if rear'd in the garden hard bye.
- [T]he whole [group] had been bedizzened out, into a burlesque imitation of an antique masque.
To make (someone or something) dirty
To make (someone or something) dirty; to bedaub, to besmear, to dirty.
- Slinger brast aght o'th' door like a roarin lion,—but he wor sooin collard, an' he wor soa bedisend with soft cake an' puttaty pillins at his own mother could'nt ha owned him.
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Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for bedizen. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA