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

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Etymology

Origin of bedabble

First recorded in 1580–90; be- + dabble

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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

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

The Countess, her face bedabbled with tears, tears of outraged pride as well as grief, stayed her sobs and looked in the same direction.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Stanley J. Weyman

There were no flowers to be seen but beaten-down Michaelmas daisies and bedabbled phlox.

From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie

It was a rainy October afternoon, and through the door she could see the black main street —houses and road alike bedabbled in wet and mire.

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

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