bedabble
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]bedabble (third-person singular simple present bedabbles, present participle bedabbling, simple past and past participle bedabbled)
- To dabble about or all over with moisture; make something wet by sprinkling or spattering water, paint, or other liquid on it.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- Bedabbled with the dew, and torn with briers,
I can no further crawl, no further go.
- 1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 14, in Mary Barton[2]:
- A vision of her pale, sweet face, with her bright hair all bedabbled with gore, seemed to float constantly before his aching eyes.
- 1912, Charles Egbert Craddoc (pseudonym of Mary Noailles Murfree), “The Crucial Moment” in The Raid of the Guerilla and Other Stories, Philadelphia: Lippincott,[3]
- […] the weapon in Jeffrey's hand was discharged in his latest impulse of action after he fell to the floor, the blood gushing from a wound that crimsoned all the delicate whiteness of his shirt-front and bedabbled his snowy hair and beard.
Translations
[edit]to make wet
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