(UK, Ireland, slang) To adorn, dress up, spruce up.
(UK, Ireland, slang) To adorn, dress up, spruce up.
The way they dicky up the corpse in the fancy funeral parlours today, with cosmetics and other tricks of the trade, and dressed in the best clothes, one would think they were trying to tell you what Our Lord said about the little daughte…
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(vulgar, slang, transitive) To ruin; to spoil.