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dizzen

dizzen is the alternative form of dizen.

dizzen is the pronunciation spelling of dozen.

Meaning of dizen

Verb

dizen (third-person singular simple present dizens, present participle dizening, simple past and past participle dizened)

  1. (transitive) To dress with flax for spinning.
  2. (transitive) To dress with clothes; attire; deck; bedizen.
    • Like a tragedy queen he has dizen'd her out, / Or rather like tragedy giving a rout.1774, Oliver Goldsmith, “Retaliation”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, published 1906
  3. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To dress showily; adorn; dress out.
    • I tell you, these Englishwomen have either no life at all in them, or they're nothing but animal life. 'Gad, how they dizen themselves! They've no other use for their fingers. The wealth of this country's frightful!'1871, George Meredith, chapter XXXIX, in The Adventures of Harry Richmond

Meaning of dozen

Noun (1)

dozen (plural dozens or dozen)

  1. A set of twelve.
    • Can I have a dozen eggs, please?
  2. (always followed by of) A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.
    • There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.
    Synonyms:
    a great deal of
  3. An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
    • The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 139
  4. The number twelve.

Noun (2)

dozen (plural dozens)

  1. (derogatory, South Korean idol fandom) A member of a K-pop group who has no talent.

Forms of dizzen

Verb
third-person singular presentdizzens
present participledizzening
past participledizzened
pastdizzened
Noun
pluraldizzens

Origin of dizzen

Variant of dizen.

Variant of dozen.

Questions about dizzen

What is dizzen the alternative form of?
Dizzen is the alternative form of dizen.

Words near dizzen in the dictionary

  1. dizz
  2. dizzard
  3. dizzardly
  4. dizzards
  5. dizzed
  6. dizzen
  7. dizzened
  8. dizzening
  9. dizzens
  10. dizzes
  11. dizzie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dizzen (page history and authors); dizen (page history and authors); dozen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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