dizen
/ˈdɪzən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Like a tragedy queen he has dizen'd her out, / Or rather like tragedy giving a rout."
- "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!'"
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
- Transitive verb
- British usage
Inflected Forms
dizens (present, singular)
dizening (participle, present)
dizened (participle, past)
dizened (past)
disen (alternative)
dysyn (alternative)
dizzen (alternative)