beflapped

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English biflapped, be-flapped, past participle of Middle English beflappen (“to flog; beat”).

Adjective

beflapped (comparative more beflapped, superlative most beflapped)

1. (archaic) Flogged, beaten, or bruised
   • 1999, Richard Beadle, Pamela M. King, York Mystery Plays, page 208:

     We are cumbered his corpus for to carry, Many wights on him wonder and wary — Lo, his flesh all beflapped, that fat is.

Etymology 2

From be- +‎ flap +‎ -ed.

Adjective

beflapped (comparative more beflapped, superlative most beflapped)

1. Having, equipped with, or abounding in flaps
   • 1821, The Privateer: A Tale, volume 1, page 20:

     After a little while the good lady turned out in her petticoat and stays, with a blanket over her shoulders, and a night-cap so beflapped and befrilled as gave the pitiful countenance within it the appearance of being decked out for a funeral.

   • 1882, Marion Harry Spiellmann, The Magazine of Art, volume 5, page 194:

     From the squalid backyard of poor London tenements, populous with squalling children and beflapped with grimy linen, to the stately quadrangles of college and mansion, the courtyard shows at a glance not only the social status of the establishment and the individual taste of its owner, but the characteristics of its owner's country.

   • 1906, Richard Davey, The pageant of London, volume 2, page 79:

     In their places we find plain stoles (those of the Roman Church were decorated as are those of the Established Church to-day), the plain cassock, and the well-known beflapped cap, which, none the less, bears a slight resemblance to the Catholic biretta.

   • 1964, Saturday Review, volume 47, page 28:

     Basque shirts, the striped boat-neck standby still affected by fishermen, are on view here, although the designers have made wild Gallic stabs at the Ivy League's buttondowns and multibuttoned and beflapped shirts of the American West.