bepatched
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bepatched (comparative more bepatched, superlative most bepatched)
- Covered in patches.
- 1901, Thomas Hardy, The Sick Battle-God:
- Wherefore, at times, as if in ancient mould / He looms, bepatched with paint […]
- 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 193:
- 'Don't trouble' said the parson distantly, unmoved by the bepatched swagsman's splendid offer.