bedizen

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /bɪˈdaɪz(ə)n/    美 /bɪˈdaɪzən/|/-ˈdɪ-/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To dress or ornament (someone or something), especially in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner. also,figuratively,literary,transitive
    — Self is a great Fop and a great Slattern: Soul has given her very good Cloaths, fine Ornaments, plain and neat, but Self either leaves them, like a Slut, in every Corner of the Houſe; or vvhen ſhe puts them on, ſhe does bedizen them vvith Lace and Embroidery, Fringes and Ruffles, Patches, and Povvder, that you can hardly ſee enough of the Garment to diſtinguiſh the excellent Stuff vvhich it is made of: […]
  2. To make (someone or something) dirty; to bedaub, to besmear, to dirty. Northern-England,literary,transitive
    — Slinger brast aght o'th' door like a roarin lion,—but he wor sooin collard, an' he wor soa bedisend with soft cake an' puttaty pillins at his own mother could'nt ha owned him.
    Slinger burst [?] out of the door like a roaring lion,—but he was soon collared, and he was so bedizened with soft cake and potato peelings as his own mother couldn't have owned him.

词形变化

bedizens present,singular,third-person bedizening participle,present bedizened participle,past bedizened past bedisen alternative bedizzen alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
bedizened bedizening bedizenment bedizenry
相关词
dize dizen dizened dizenment endizen undizened

词源

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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