bedizen

1. (also figurative) To dress or ornament (someone or something), especially in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner.Examples: "Self is a great Fop and a great Slattern: Soul has given her very good Cloaths, fine Ornaments, plain and neat, but Self either leaves them, like a Slut, in every Corner of the Houſe; or vvhen ſhe puts them on, ſhe does bedizen them vvith Lace and Embroidery, Fringes and Ruffles, Patches, and Povvder, that you can hardly ſee enough of the Garment to diſtinguiſh the excellent Stuff vvhich it is made of: […]"; "Thus the Violet that gayly bedizens the Mead / A fragrance more ſvveet does ſupply, / Tho' oft' rudely bruſh'd by the Traveller's tread, / Than if rear'd in the garden hard bye."; "[T]he whole [group] had been bedizzened out, into a burlesque imitation of an antique masque."Synonyms: embellishalsofigurativelyliterarytransitive

2. (Northern England) To make (someone or something) dirty; to bedaub, to besmear, to dirty.Examples: "Slinger brast aght o'th' door like a roarin lion,—but he wor sooin collard, an' he wor soa bedisend with soft cake an' puttaty pillins at his own mother could'nt ha owned him."Northern-Englandliterarytransitive