Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Archaic To deck out in fine clothes and ornaments; bedizen.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To dress with flax for spinning, as a distaff.
- To dress with clothes; attire; deck; bedizen.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To dress with flax for spinning.
- v. transitive To dress with clothes; attire; deck; bedizen.
- v. transitive To dress showily; adorn; dress out.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To dress; to attire.
- v. To dress gaudily; to overdress; to bedizen; to deck out.
WordNet 3.0
- v. dress up garishly and tastelessly
Etymologies
- From dialectal dize ("to put tow on a distaff"), from Middle English *disen, from Old English *disan, *disian, from *dise ("bunch of flax on a distaff"), from Proto-Germanic *disanō (“distaff”), of unknown origin, equivalent to dize + -en. Cognate with Middle Low German dise, disene ("distaff"). More at dize. (Wiktionary)
- Possibly Middle Dutch disen, to prepare a distaff with flax for spinning, from Middle Low German dise, disene, bunch of flax. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“March 20, 2008 at 12:27 pm iz no kitteh is ready for diskoneckshun when lazers are dis..dizen…..erm, off.”
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“But if you don't go you'll get your first killing here, and say naething o 'the rest o' the dizen.”
“En fin no habia cosa en su tierra, que no la tuviese de oro contrahecha; y aun dizen, que tenian los Ingas un verjel en una isla cerca de la Puna, donde se iban a holgar, cuando querian mar, que tenia la hortaliza, las flores, y arboles de oro y plata; invencion y grandeza hasta entonces nunca vista.”
“Y dizen, que los Portugueses con ciertas Carauelas aportaron por alli, haura dos años, llamãdose Españoles, y vassallos del rey de Castilla, y robaron muchas islas, y las saquearon, y lleuaron mucha gente captiua, porque como veyan q nuestra armada se haiza enla nueua España, tomassen los nuestros cõ los dela tierra mal credito.”
“Scarborough's ower classy for t 'likes o' Mary an 'me; it's all reight for bettermy-bodies that likes to dizen theirselves out an' sook cigars on church parade.”
“He gives a partial translation of one, beginning the passage: "Los Indios de Zolola dizen en sus escritos," etc.”
“I dinna consort wi 'shoplifters, an' idiots, an 'suckin' bairns -- wi 'long nose, an' short nose, an 'pug nose, an' seventeen Deuks o 'Wellington, let alone a baker's dizen”
“What is the worth o 'anything to me, puir auld deevil, that ha' no half a dizen years to live at the furthest.”
“Plague on these here women folk, they take such a long time to dizen themselves!”
“Afrentanse de tener muçhos hijos por qe dizen que auiendose de Repartir la haçienda entre todos qe quedaran todos pobres qe mas vale qe aya ouo y ese Rico, tienen grande punto en sus casamientos porqe no se casara nadie sino es con su semejante y ansi jamas se casan Prinçipales, sino es con mugeres prinçipales, solian tener cada Vno las mugeres qe podian conprar y sostentar, son ellas grandissimas alcaguetas y de sus proprias hijas y ansi ninguna cosa se les da de ser Ruynès delante de las madres porqe por esto no se les da ningun castigo aunqe los varones, no son tan alcaguetes como los moros, quieren los hombres tanto a sus mugeres qe si tienen guerras Vnos con otros el marido se acuesta y ayuda a la parentela de la muger aunqe sea contra su proprio padre y hernos --”
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