"dicky up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: dickies up [present, singular, third-person], dickying up [participle, present], dickied up [participle, past], dickied up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} dicky up (third-person singular simple present dickies up, present participle dickying up, simple past and past participle dickied up)
  1. (British, Ireland, slang) To adorn, dress up, spruce up. Tags: British, Ireland, slang Derived forms: dickied up

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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.'",
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