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

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

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

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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