bedrabble

American  

[bih-drab-uhl] / bɪˈdræb əl /

verb (used with object)

bedrabbled, bedrabbling

1. to drench or muddy.

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Etymology

Origin of bedrabble

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at be-, drabble

Example Sentences

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bedrabbled

A moment before the dingy bedrabbled snow at Cardono's feet had been puffed upwards in a white jet, yet he neither stopped for this nor took the least notice.

From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Now she dashed out and seized the bedrabbled looking stranger by the hand.

From Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans by Emerson, Alice B.

Ther's a woman bedrabbled an weet,    Crouched daan in a doorhoil to rest; Her een strangely breet,—her face like a sheet,    An her long hair hings ovver her breast.

From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by Hartley, John

It had begun to drizzle, as it so often does during the winter in Northern France, and this man wore a bedrabbled cloak—a brigandish-looking cloak—over his blue smock.

From Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier by Emerson, Alice B.

The tattered portières of the House of Casa-Evora, the bedrabbled robes of the marquisate, all that was ridiculous to her.

From The Paliser case by Saltus, Edgar