bejeweled en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English bi- English be- Anglo-Norman juelbor. Middle English juel English jewel English bejewel Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English bejeweled From bejewel + -ed.
Meanings
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Covered in jewels, especially as decoration.
Saturday, he was at the center. And amid a day of carefully staged celebration, he looked somber, even weighed down by it. Each piece of royal hardware presented to him during his installation — orb, bejeweled sword, robes upon robes — seemed to add psychic poundage.
2023 May 6, James Poniewozik, “Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 May 2023:It is their silly pope and the rich, bejeweled bishops who are to blame and not the Catholic people.
1990 February 11, S. Kelly, “How To Spell Respect”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 30, page 5:We tried to block the glare from the lunch-break o’clock sun as we watched this babe with bejeweled nails dancing with a shirtless dude in the desert while rapping.
2019 December 14, Samantha Irby, “Lizzo: TIME's Entertainer of the Year”, in TIME, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2020:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more bejeweled | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most bejeweled | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| bejewelled | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (5)
ca enjoiat (covered in jewels, especially as decoration) · ga seodmhar (covered in jewels, especially as decoration) · fr paré(e) de bijoux (covered in jewels, especially as decoration) · cy gemog (covered in jewels, especially as decoration) · fr bijouté (covered in jewels, especially as decoration)