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dizen.

To dress with flax for spinning.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈdɪzən/
  1. To dress with flax for spinning.

    transitive
  2. To dress with clothes; attire; deck; bedizen.

    transitive
  3. To dress showily; adorn; dress out.

    UK · dialectal · transitive
Where this word comes from

From dialectal dize (“to put tow on a distaff”), from Middle English *disen, from Old English *disan, *disian, from *dise, *disen (“bunch of flax on a distaff”), from Proto-Germanic *disanō (“distaff”), of unknown origin, equivalent to dize + -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Diezene (“bundle of flax, distaff”), Middle Low German dise, disene (“distaff”).

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