bedrabble
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of bedrabble
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at be-, drabble
Example Sentences
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Certainly the spectacle of these exotically plumed bipeds, whose fine feathers were already bedrabbled by sand and growing limp in the sea breeze, was somewhat dissonant with the rudeness of sea and sky and shore.
From Drift from Two Shores by Bret Harte
They were all dressed most fantastically, and the child running in advance, an agile and bedrabbled looking little creature, was more in masquerade than the others.
From The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air by Margaret Penrose
Ruth, wet and bedrabbled as she was, did not think of her own discomfort.
From Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace by Alice B. Emerson
Elsie, meanwhile, with her forlorn and disgraced daughter, found a temporary asylum in a neighboring mountain-village, where the poor, bedrabbled, broken-winged song-bird soon panted and fluttered her little life away.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various
"Well, he can keep away from me after this," grumbled Stanley, as he looked at his wet and bedrabbled clothes.
From The Rover Boys in Alaska or Lost in the Fields of Ice by Dick Richards
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