besprinkle
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of besprinkle
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at be-, sprinkle
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I will scatter seeds criminally thickly on the surface, pat them down, and then remember that they need cover and besprinkle them with some soil that I’ve inevitably dropped on the kitchen floor.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2019
To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
He pretended to be angry, and asked her, with a frown, how she could dare to besprinkle her sovereign; she replied—"When children play together there is no distinction between the prince and the peasant."
From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by William Sleeman
Linda Pallant, young as she was, and fresh and fair and charming, gentle and sufficiently shy, looked somehow exclusive—as if the dust of the common world had never been meant to besprinkle her.
From Louisa Pallant by Henry James
V. be variegated &c. adj.; variegate, stripe, streak, checker, chequer; bespeckle†, speckle; besprinkle, sprinkle; stipple, maculate, dot, bespot†; tattoo, inlay, damascene; embroider, braid, quilt.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital I's.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps it was as a precautionary measure that the Buccaneer besprinkled himself, as it were, with holy water, before entering upon his everyday life.
From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton
There are some squat, tubby-looking little pails in a row; while close by stands a shiny-hatted straw-bit besprinkled Triton blowing his pipe.
From Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches by George Manville Fenn
This bird-cherry grew not as a bush, but as a tree, about six inches in diameter and thirty feet high, full of branches and bushy, and all besprinkled with bright, white, fragrant blossoms.
From Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Leo Tolstoy, Count
Body black, rugged, its wing-cases besprinkled here and there with clustered dirty spots.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Carl von Linn?
They are continually besprinkling themselves with eau de Cologne, esprit de Lavande, agua rica, or mistura.
From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Thomasina Ross
The monster gave a frightful howl, and lashed violently with its tail, besprinkling us with the black slimy mud of the swamp.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various
Here are the headquarters of a large division of British troops, the red coats besprinkling every street and roadway.
From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou
Then, he drew together a great heap of crisp shavings and slathers, plentifully besprinkling it with what remained in the can.
From At Fault by Kate Chopin
Angelica and her mother were busy besprinkling her and rubbing her forehead with essences.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann
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