dizen

Verb

Verb Forms: dizened, dizening, dizens

To dress in a gaudy or elaborate fashion; to deck out.
dress up garishly and tastelessly
To dress with flax for spinning.
To dress with clothes; attire; deck; bedizen.
To dress showily; adorn; dress out.

Examples

She loved to DIZEN her Scrabble board with fancy, high-scoring words.

Origin / Etymology

From dialectal dize (“to put tow on a distaff”), from Middle English *disen, from Old English *disan, *disian, from *dise, *disen (“bunch of flax on a distaff”), from Proto-Germanic *disanō (“distaff”), of unknown origin, equivalent to dize + -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Diezene (“bundle of flax, distaff”), Middle Low German dise, disene (“distaff”).

Synonyms

bedizen

Scrabble Score: 15

dizen: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
dizen: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dizen: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

dizen: valid Words With Friends Word