Meaning of dickied up | Babel Free

Definitions

Dressed up, decked out.

Ireland, UK, slang

Examples

“Anyhow, there we are, all sitting like⟳ stuffed ducks in the front seat—Una and Agnes and Rose and Mother and me—you know⟳—and mother dickied up in her good black shawl and everything— […]”

“Four cars turned off the main street and parked in the square in the last⟳ few minutes. Faces of misery on the people in them. Maybe they've all a funeral to go to. They were all dickied up to the nines, but no colour nor smiles.”

“We are probably more comfortable in a recession, when we have⟳ less money to worry⟳ about getting all dickied up like⟳ a dog's dinner. (A friend in New York calls my look⟳ "rumpled street urchin". It's true. I have⟳ lost many a battle with a bargain bin.)”

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