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dizen

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈdɪzən/Part of speech verbSorted deinzStarts with DEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. dress up garishly and tastelessly

Word origin

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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  • Like a tragedy queen he has dizen'd her out, / Or rather like tragedy giving a rout.
  • 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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