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befezzed

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /bɪˈfɛzd/
  • Received-Pronunciation: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /bəˈfɛzd/
  • General-American: /bi-/

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adj

Meaning 1

Wearing a fez (“a felt hat shaped like a truncated cone with a tassel attached”); fezzed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From be- (prefix intensifying adjectives with the sense ‘adorned with something’) + fezzed (“wearing a fez”). Fezzed is derived from fez + -ed (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, with the sense of having the object represented by the noun), and fez from Ottoman Turkish فس (fes, “fez”), from فس (Fes), فاس (Fez, “the city of Fez, Morocco”) (where the red dye used to colour the hat was produced), from Arabic فَاس (fās, “Fez, Morocco; (archaic) fez”), perhaps related to Central Atlas Tamazight ⴰⴼⵣⴰ (afza, “coarse, rough; hard, rocky”) (referring to the Atlas Mountains).