Pronunciation: [be-'dI-zên]
Definition: To dress up in a flashy fashion, to deck (oneself) out brazenly in gaudy clothes.
Usage: Today's nifty little word has the same meaning with and without the prefix be-. "Dizen" means the same thing as "bedizen," though the prefix gives it the beat that goes with its meaning. There is a noun, "bedizenment" and the participles, "bedizening" and "bedizened," may be used as adjectives, as a bedizened strumpet or a bedizening experience trying on clothes in a hippy boutique.
Suggested Usage: Today's word is most often used as a haughty comment on vulgar, flashy feminine dress, "April May can't step out of her apartment unless she bedizens herself with cheap furs and gobs of costume jewelry." (As Dolly Parton once put it, "It takes a lot of money to look so cheap." ) However, there is no reason to exclude men: "We all went to a costume party at which all the guests were bedizened as Persian royalty of the 13th century."
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