bedabble

American  

[bih-dab-uhl] / bɪˈdæb əl /

verb (used with object)

bedabbled, bedabbling

1. to spatter or soil all over.

   clothes bedabbled with paint.

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Other Word Forms

• unbedabbled
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of bedabble

First recorded in 1580–90; be- + dabble

Example Sentences

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bedabbled

From this black hour, this curse anointing hour, The currents of thy heart are all corrupt; The motions of thy thoughts are serpentine; And thy death-doing and bedabbled soul Is maculate with spots of Erebus.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various

The dress itself was of a pale shade of green; the mire and mud with which it was bedabbled no longer showed in the half light; and the satin folds glistened dimly as she moved.

From Sir George Tressady — Volume I by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Him I found already at his desk and already bedabbled with maccabaw, in the same anteroom where I rencountered with James More.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

He was taken within four-and-twenty hours, and brought back, bedabbled with mud and rain, haggard and worn--to all appearance more dead than alive.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction by Arthur Mee

There was a cut upon his forehead, and they had been wetting his hair, which lay bedabbled and entangled on the pillow.

From Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens