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verb
- 1. dress up or decorate gaudily: literary "a uniform bedizened with resplendent medals"
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Bedizen descends from the older, now obsolete, verb disen, which means "to dress a distaff with flax" and which came to English by way of Middle Dutch. The spelling of disen eventually became dizen, and its meaning expanded to cover the "dressing up" of things other than distaffs.
Bedizen definition: to dress or adorn in a showy, gaudy, or tasteless manner. See examples of BEDIZEN used in a sentence.
Bedizen means to decorate yourself or something else to the max — in an over-the-top flashy style. Picture big jewels and gold bling.
Define bedizen. bedizen synonyms, bedizen pronunciation, bedizen translation, English dictionary definition of bedizen. tr.v. be·di·zened , be·di·zen·ing , be·di·zens To ornament or dress in a showy or gaudy manner. be·di′zen·ment n.
Jun 2, 2024 · bedizen (third-person singular simple present bedizens, present participle bedizening, simple past and past participle bedizened) To ornament something in showy, tasteless, or gaudy finery. Synonym: embellish
to dress or decorate gaudily or tastelessly. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Derived forms. bedizenment (beˈdizenment) noun. Word origin. C17: from be- + obsolete dizen to dress up, of uncertain origin. bedizen in American English. (biˈdaɪzən ; bɪˈdaɪzən ; also, bɪˈdɪzən ) verb transitive. Rare.
Bedizen Definition. To ornament or dress in a showy or gaudy manner. To dress or decorate in a cheap, showy way. To ornament something in showy, tasteless, or gaudy finery. (UK dialectal, Northern England) To dirty; cover with dirt. (colloquial) A person who spends most of their time in bed; a slugabed.
