"dickied up" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1964, Brian Friel, Philadelphia, Here I Come! (play), New York, N.Y.: The Noonday Press, published 1965, page 59:",
          "text": "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— […]",
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          "ref": "2015, Donal Ryan, A Slanting of the Sun: Stories, Hanover, N.H.: Steerforth Press, →ISBN, page 153:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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 2022-08-08:",
          "text": "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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        "Dressed up, decked out."
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        "(UK, Ireland, slang) Dressed up, decked out."
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          "ref": "1964, Brian Friel, Philadelphia, Here I Come! (play), New York, N.Y.: The Noonday Press, published 1965, page 59:",
          "text": "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— […]",
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          "ref": "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 2022-08-08:",
          "text": "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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