Definition of Bedaub

1. Verb. Spread or daub (a surface).

Exact synonyms: Besmear
Generic synonyms: Cover

Definition of Bedaub

1. v. t. To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty.

Definition of Bedaub

1. Verb. (transitive) To smear upon; to soil. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To ornament garishly; to overdecorate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bedaub

1. to besmear [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: besmear

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedaub

bedamn
bedamned
bedamning
bedamns
bedangle
bedare
bedark
bedarken
bedarkened
bedarkening
bedarkens
bedash
bedashed
bedashes
bedashing
bedaub (current term)
bedaubed
bedaubing
bedaubs
bedaughtered
bedawin
bedawins
bedaze
bedazed
bedazes
bedazing
bedazzle
bedazzled
bedazzlement
bedazzlements

Literary usage of Bedaub

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Illustrated Magazine of Art (1853)
"Were Fashion to take it into her head to bedaub the flowers of a parterre with paint, there would soon be no one, in some classes of society, who would put ..."

2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"... va To bedaub, SB It properly denotes the effect of carelessness. ... To bedaub, S. nearly synon. with E. ..."

3. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"To work in ко slovenly a way as to bedaub one's self with mire, Ib. SLAB, Su, j. ... To bedaub, SA Wilton't P.—Teut. ¡toare, sórdida ancilla ; Belg. ..."

4. Notes on Elizabethan Dramatists: With Conjectural Emendations of the Text by Karl Elze (1884)
"The meaning of the passage is: 'A single dram of evil is sufficient to bedaub (besmirch, besmear, or soil) the whole of a noble substance and render it as ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Bedaub on Dictionary.com!Search for Bedaub on Thesaurus.com!Search for Bedaub on Google!Search for Bedaub on Wikipedia!

Search