dizen
verb/ˈdɪzən/
Etymology
From dialectal dize (“to put tow on a distaff”), from Middle English *disen, from Old English *disan, *disian, from *dise, *disen (“bunch of flax on a distaff”), from Proto-Germanic *disanō (“distaff”), of unknown origin, equivalent to dize + -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Diezene (“bundle of flax, distaff”), Middle Low German dise, disene (“distaff”).
Definitions
To dress with flax for spinning.
To dress with clothes
To dress with clothes; attire; deck; bedizen.
- Like a tragedy queen he has dizen'd her out, / Or rather like tragedy giving a rout.
To dress showily
To dress showily; adorn; dress out.
- I tell you, these Englishwomen have either no life at all in them, or they're nothing but animal life. 'Gad, how they dizen themselves! They've no other use for their fingers. The wealth of this country's frightful!'
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for dizen. 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