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bedizened

adj
/bɪˈdaɪz(ə)nd/UK/bɪˈdaɪzənd/US

Etymology

From bedizen + -ed.

  1. inherited from *disanō✻ — “distaff”
  2. inherited from *disan✻
  3. inherited from *disen✻
  4. formed as bedizened — “bedizen + -ed”

Definitions

  1. Dressed or ornamented in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner

    Dressed or ornamented in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner; ostentatious.

    • There was much whispering and plotting after she had gone in, a conference with some of the boys, and a handing over of bedizened pencils and chews of gum for value received.
    • She wore only the subtlest touch of make up and round her delicate throat only a single string of pearls. Among the hundred bedizened women she was a rarity.

  2. simple past and past participle of bedizen

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA