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bedizen.

To dress or ornament (someone or something), especially in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner.

7 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/bɪˈdaɪz(ə)n/Received-Pronunciation/-ˈdɪ-/Received-Pronunciation/bɪˈdaɪzən/General-American/-ˈdɪ-/General-American
  1. To dress or ornament (someone or something), especially in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner.

    also · figuratively · literary · transitive
  2. To make (someone or something) dirty; to bedaub, to besmear, to dirty.

    Northern-England · literary · transitive
Where this word comes from

PIE word *h₁epi From be- (intensifying prefix) + dizen (“to attire, dress, especially showily”). Dizen is derived from dialectal dize (“to put (tow) on a distaff”), probably from Middle English *disen, from Old English *disan, *disian, from *dise, *disen (“bunch of flax on a distaff”), from Proto-Germanic *disanō (“distaff”); further etymology unknown.

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