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

See Examples For:

bedabbled

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

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

From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie

I saunter up the walks; My sandals wetted through With dripping flowers and stalks, That line the avenue; My broidered mantle all bedabbled with the dew!

From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various

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

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