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dirndled

dirndled adjective: wearing a dirndl.

Adjective

dirndled (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a dirndl.
    • She looked fluffy and frolicsome, dressed à la gamine, showed a generous amount of smooth leg, knew how to stress the white of a bare step by the black of a velvet slipper, and pouted, and dimpled, and romped, and dirndled, and shook her short curly blond hair in the cutest and tritest fashion...1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC
    • That’s not to mention the little Nazi flags with pretzels in lieu of swastikas that were handed out to everybody in the audience (including a troop of dirndled transvestites who waved them around like lost cheerleaders).2009 May 19, Michael Kimmelman, “The Führer Returns to Berlin, This Time Saluted Only by Laughs”, in New York Times

Origin of dirndled

From dirndl + -ed.

Questions about dirndled

What does dirndled mean?
Dirndled means wearing a dirndl.
What part of speech is dirndled?
Dirndled is an adjective.

Words near dirndled in the dictionary

  1. Dirleton
  2. Dirlewanger
  3. dirlotapide
  4. Dirnaseer
  5. dirndl
  6. dirndled
  7. dirndls
  8. dirofilaria
  9. dirofilarial
  10. dirofilariasis
  11. dirofilariosis

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