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dickying up

dickying up is the present participle and gerund of dicky up.

Meaning of dicky up

Verb

dicky up (third-person singular simple present dickies up, present participle dickying up, simple past and past participle dickied up)

  1. (Ireland, UK, slang) To adorn, dress up, spruce up.
    • The way they dicky up the corpse in the fancy funeral parlours today, with cosmetics and other tricks of the trade, and dressed in the best clothes, one would think they were trying to tell you what Our Lord said about the little daughter of Jairus, 'She is not dead but sleeping.'1998, Criostoir O'Flynn, There Is an Isle: A Limerick Boyhood, Boulder, C.O.: Mercier Press; Irish American Book Company, →ISBN, page 206

Questions about dickying up

What is dickying up the present participle and gerund of?
Dickying up is the present participle and gerund of dicky up.

Words near dickying up in the dictionary

  1. dicky up
  2. dicky-bird
  3. dicky-birds
  4. dickybird
  5. dickybirds
  6. dickying up
  7. diclazuril
  8. DiClemente
  9. DiClementes
  10. diclinate
  11. diclinic

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