besmeared
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]besmeared (comparative more besmeared, superlative most besmeared)
- Smeared over; soiled, sullied.
- 1592, Thomas Nash[e], Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Deuill. […][1], London: […] [John Charlewood for] Richard Ihones, […], →OCLC:
- In an other corner, Mistris Minx, a marchants wife, that will eate no cherries, forsooth, but when they are at twentie shillings a pound, that lookes as simperingly as if she were besmeard, and iets it as gingerly as if she were dancing the canaries, […]
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]besmeared
- simple past and past participle of besmear