dizen

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To dress with flax for spinning. transitive
  2. To dress with clothes; attire; deck; bedizen. transitive
    — Like a tragedy queen he has dizen'd her out, / Or rather like tragedy giving a rout.
  3. To dress showily; adorn; dress out. UK,dialectal,transitive
    — 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!'

词形变化

dizens present,singular,third-person dizening participle,present dizened participle,past dizened past disen alternative dysyn alternative dizzen alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
bedizen

词源

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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