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Definition of Bedaub
1. Verb. Spread or daub (a surface).
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
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 ..."
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