bestung

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ stung.

Adjective

bestung (comparative more bestung, superlative most bestung)

1. (archaic) Having been stung.
   • 1830, William Taylor, Historic Survey of German Poetry: Interspersed with Various Translations, page 383:

     No sooner was she out of hearing, And not expos'd to take alarm, Than from my restless couch I sprung, As if by swarming wasps bestung.

   • 1862, Václav Vratislav, Adventures of Baron Wenceslas Wratislaw: what he saw in Constantinople, in his captivity, page 129:

     After all, however, it was lucky for us that it was so, for the skin over the whole of our bodies was so bestung that we no longer felt the biting of lice or bugs, although it was impossible to get used to the stinging of those other insects.

   • 1872, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa, page 595:

     We raced madly for about half a mile, behaving in as wild a manner as the poor bestung animals.

   • 1904, William Everett, The Italian Poets Since Dante, page 181:

     ...in homicidal feud, By slight punctilio urged, a jealous smart Against his friend be to deal a blow bestung,—

   • 1935, Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook, page 167:

     From the day of his landing mosquitoes and black flies marked the Spectator for their own, and before his week at Tijuca was over he was so bestung that his best friend might have been forgiven for passing him upon the street.