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dickied up en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (Ireland, UK, slang) Dressed up, decked out.
   • 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. 2015, Donal Ryan, A Slanting of the Sun: Stories, Hanover, N.H.: Steerforth Press, →ISBN, page 153:
   • 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— […] 1964, Brian Friel, Philadelphia, Here I Come! (play), New York, N.Y.: The Noonday Press, published 1965, page 59:
   • 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.) 2016 September 27, Quentin Fottrell, “Why you should never judge a man in an ill-fitting cardigan”, in The Irish Times, Dublin: Irish Times Trust, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2022:

Forms

dickied up en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of dicky up
   form of dicky up