bedizening

Verb

bedizen (third-person singular simple present bedizens, present participle bedizening, simple past and past participle bedizened)

1. (also, figuratively, literary, transitive) To dress or ornament (someone or something), especially in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner.
   • 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...1723 August 9 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Rev. Dr. ***** [pseudonym], “A Letter of Advice to a Young Lady, who had Married above Herself, Grew Vain, and Despis’d Her Husband”, in Alexander...

   Synonyms:

   bedaub, embellish, gaud, overdecorate

2. (Northern England, literary, transitive) To make (someone or something) dirty; to bedaub, to besmear, to dirty.
   • 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.1876, John Hartley, “Ther’s a Mule i’ th’ Garden. A Christmas Story.”, in Yorksher Puddin’. A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories, Wakefield, West Yorkshire: William Nicholson and Sons...

   Synonyms:

   bedirty, befoul, sully, assoil, beclart, bedaub, imbrue (especially with blood), befile, befilth, begrime