dizen
(transitive, UK, _, dialectal) To dress showily; adorn; dress out.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK
(transitive, UK, _, dialectal) To dress showily; adorn; dress out.
Like a tragedy queen he has '''dizen'd''' her out, / Or rather like tragedy giving a rout.
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#2·Apr 27, 2026UK
(transitive) To dress with clothes; attire; deck; bedizen.
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!'
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#3·Apr 27, 2026UK
(transitive) To dress with flax for spinning.
Like a tragedy queen he has '''dizen'd''' her out, / Or rather like tragedy giving a rout.
Origin: From dialectal dize, from , from , *disian, from *dise, bunch of flax on a distaff, from , of unknown origin, equivalent to . Cognate with , , disene. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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