Wednesday, March 31, 2010

bedizen: /bih-dahy-zuhn/

to dress or adorn in a showy, gaudy, or tasteless manner.

how to use in casual conversation:

"what the hell makes you think it's ok to bedizen your 12-year-old daughter in victoria secret clothing and sweats with things written across their asses?"

not to be confused with:

denizen

how it makes me feel:

i'm okay with it. it isn't exactly like 'whoa!' but it isn't bad. i'd prefer it had more syllables. i was looking for a link between denizen and bedizen but it seems like a bit of a goose chase. then both end in '-zen' however, denizen is derived from the word deinz and bedizen is derived from dizen which is weird since they're anagrams of each other but don't have origins in the same time frame and one seems to appear in old and middle english but the other doesn't.

i have no idea what any of that means.

what i do know is that if i could become a bed-denizen i'd be a happy man.

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