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bedizen
verb
to dress or adorn in a showy, gaudy, or tasteless manner.
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- First recorded in 1655–65.
- Formed from the verb dizen, “to deck with clothes or finery.”
- Dizen was originally a weaving term that refers to a bunch of wool fiber on a distaff, a spinning wheel attachment.
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EXAMPLES OF BEDIZEN
- The attendees had bedizened themselves for the midnight release of the new fantasy film.
- The children loved to use their parents’ old costume jewelry to bedizen themselves.
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malamute
noun
one of an Alaskan breed of large dogs having a dense, coarse coat, raised originally by the Inuit for drawing sleds.
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- First recorded in 1895–1900.
- Sometimes capitalized, malamute is from the Inupiaq word malimiut.
- Malimiut is a name for the local groups of Inupiaq peoples of the Kotzebue Sound region in what is now Western Alaska, who bred such dogs.
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EXAMPLES OF MALAMUTE
- The dog was a beautiful mix of German Shepherd, Siberian Husky, and Alaskan Malamute.
- Bursting through the screen door, the malamute sprinted to greet us as we came up the walkway.
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Why Dictionary.com chose bumbershoot
More about bumbershoot
- First recorded in 1895–1900.
- The stem, bumber-, is a facetious alteration of umbrella
- The –shoot element is a respelling of the –chute element in parachute.
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EXAMPLES OF BUMBERSHOOT
- The sudden rain shower caught her off guard, so she reached for her trusty bumbershoot.
- The old man chuckled as he twirled his colorful bumbershoot on a sunny day.
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