Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To deck out in fine clothes and ornaments; bedizen.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dress with flax for spinning, as a distaff.
- To dress with clothes; attire; deck; bedizen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To dress; to attire.
- transitive verb To dress gaudily; to overdress; to bedizen; to deck out.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
dress withflax forspinning . - verb transitive To dress with
clothes ;attire ;deck ;bedizen . - verb transitive To dress showily;
adorn ; dress out.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb dress up garishly and tastelessly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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March 20, 2008 at 12:27 pm iz no kitteh is ready for diskoneckshun when lazers are dis..dizen…..erm, off.
Now safe to disconnect - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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"But if you don't go you'll get your first killing here, and say naething o 'the rest o' the dizen."
Action Front Boyd Cable 1910
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En fin no habia cosa en su tierra, que no la tuviese de oro contrahecha; y aun dizen, que tenian los Ingas un verjel en una isla cerca de la Puna, donde se iban a holgar, cuando querian mar, que tenia la hortaliza, las flores, y arboles de oro y plata; invencion y grandeza hasta entonces nunca vista.
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Y dizen, que los Portugueses con ciertas Carauelas aportaron por alli, haura dos años, llamãdose Españoles, y vassallos del rey de Castilla, y robaron muchas islas, y las saquearon, y lleuaron mucha gente captiua, porque como veyan q nuestra armada se haiza enla nueua España, tomassen los nuestros cõ los dela tierra mal credito.
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Scarborough's ower classy for t 'likes o' Mary an 'me; it's all reight for bettermy-bodies that likes to dizen theirselves out an' sook cigars on church parade.
Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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He gives a partial translation of one, beginning the passage: "Los Indios de Zolola dizen en sus escritos," etc.
Aboriginal American Authors Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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What is the worth o 'anything to me, puir auld deevil, that ha' no half a dizen years to live at the furthest.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847
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I dinna consort wi 'shoplifters, an' idiots, an 'suckin' bairns -- wi 'long nose, an' short nose, an 'pug nose, an' seventeen Deuks o 'Wellington, let alone a baker's dizen
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847
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Plague on these here women folk, they take such a long time to dizen themselves!
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En fin no habia cosa en su tierra, que no la tuviese de oro contrahecha; y aun dizen, que tenian los Ingas un verjel en una isla cerca de la Puna, donde se iban a holgar, cuando querian mar, que tenia la hortaliza, las flores, y arboles de oro y plata; invencion y grandeza hasta entonces nunca vista.
The Discovery of Guiana Walter Raleigh 1586
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