Meaning of DIZEN
| Pronunciation: | | 'dIzun
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| | Definition: | | [v] dress up garishly and tastelessly |
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| | Synonyms: | | bedizen |
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| | See Also: | | attire, deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Diz"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dizened}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Dizening}.] [Perh. orig., to dress in a foolish manner, and
allied to dizzy: but cf. also OE. dysyn (Palsgrave) to put
tow or flax on a distaff, i. e., to dress it. Cf. {Distaff}.]
1. To dress; to attire. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
2. To dress gaudily; to overdress; to bedizen; to deck out.
Like a tragedy queen, he has dizened her out.
--Goldsmith.
To-morrow when the masks shall fall That dizen
Nature's carnival. --Emerson.
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| | Related Terms: | | adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, blazon, color, dandify, deck, deck out, decorate, doll up, dress, dress up, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enrich, fancy up, fig out, fix up, furbish, garnish, get up, grace, gussy up, ornament, overdress, paint, prank, prank up, preen, prettify, pretty up, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, rag out, redecorate, redo, refurbish, set off, set out, slick up, smarten, smarten up, spruce up, titivate, trick out, trick up, trim |
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