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Bedizen

//bɪˈdaɪz(ə)n// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To dress or ornament (someone or something), especially in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner. also, figuratively, literary, transitive

    "Self is a great Fop and a great Slattern: Soul has given her very good Cloaths, fine Ornaments, plain and neat, but Self either leaves them, like a Slut, in every Corner of the Houſe; or vvhen ſhe puts them on, ſhe does bedizen them vvith Lace and Embroidery, Fringes and Ruffles, Patches, and Povvder, that you can hardly ſee enough of the Garment to diſtinguiſh the excellent Stuff vvhich it is made of: […]"

  2. 2
    dress up garishly and tastelessly wordnet
  3. 3
    To make (someone or something) dirty; to bedaub, to besmear, to dirty. Northern-England, literary, transitive

    "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."

  4. 4
    decorate tastelessly wordnet

Etymology

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.

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