Bedizen (verb)
bed-iz-uhn
to dress or adorn in a showy, gaudy, or tasteless manner.
First recorded in 1655–65 and formed from the verb dizen, “to deck with clothes or finery.”
Dizen was originally a weaving term that refers to a bunch of wool fiber on a distaff, a spinning wheel attachment.
Example sentences
“The attendees were asked to bedizen themselves for the midnight release of the new fantasy film.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
