Meaning of dicky up | Babel Free

Definitions

To adorn, dress up, spruce up.

Ireland, UK, slang

Examples

“The way they dicky up the corpse in the fancy funeral parlours today, with cosmetics and other tricks of the trade⟳, and dressed in the best clothes, one would think⟳ they were trying to tell⟳ you what Our Lord said about the little daughter of Jairus, 'She is not dead but sleeping.'”

“I go to Edges. Pick⟳ up a tin of white outdoor paint⟳. Last⟳ one in the shop⟳. 'First Holy Communions,' the man says, by way of explanation. 'People dickying up their properties.'”

CEFR level