Bedizen

Quick meaning: Bedizen is a verb meaning (also figurative) To dress or ornament (someone or something), especially in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (Northern England) To make (someone or something) dirty; to bedaub, to besmear, to dirty.

Example Sentences

[T]he whole [group] had been bedizzened out, into a burlesque imitation of an antique masque.

Thus the Violet that gayly bedizens the Mead / A fragrance more ſvveet does ſupply, / Tho' oft' rudely bruſh'd by the Traveller's tread, / Than if rear'd in the garden hard bye.

You have bedizened me in green, a colour he detests. Lo you! let me have a blue robe, and—search for the ruby carcanet, which was part of the King of Cyprus's ransom—it is either in the steel-casket, or somewhere else.

I'm thinking you're too fine for the like of me, Shawn Keogh of Killakeen, and let you go off till you'd find a radiant lady with droves of bullocks on the plains of Meath, and herself bedisened in the diamond jewelleries of Pharaoh's ma.

Word Forms

• bedizens
• bedizening
• bedizened
• bedisen
• bedizzen

Synonyms for bedizen

Depending on context, synonyms include bedaub, embellish, gaud, overdecorate, bedirty, befoul.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dizen, bedizzen, bedaub, bedazzle, beset, bedo.

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