dickied up

Adjective

dickied up (comparative more dickied up, superlative most dickied up)

1. (Ireland, UK, slang) Dressed up, decked out.
   • Anyhow, there we are, all sitting like stuffed ducks in the front seat—Una and Agnes and Rose and Mother and me—you know—and mother dickied up in her good black shawl and everything— […]1964, Brian Friel, Philadelphia, Here I Come! (play), New York, N.Y.: The Noonday Press, published 1965, page 59
   • Four cars turned off the main street and parked in the square in the last few minutes. Faces of misery on the people in them. Maybe they've all a funeral to go to. They were all dickied up to the nines, but no colour nor smiles.2015, Donal Ryan, A Slanting of the Sun: Stories, Hanover, N.H.: Steerforth Press, →ISBN, page 153