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Definition of Bedaubs
1. bedaub [v] - See also: bedaub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedaubs
Literary usage of Bedaubs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"Any thing that bedaubs, 8. 2. A part of one's food, taken so carelessly as to
dirty one's ... A slovenly, dirty person, q. one who bedaubs himself, Roxb. ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"One who bedaubs ; a dirty ... One who bedaubs, &., S. ; [also, same with Slakt, s.
8, Clydes. ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"A surly ill-bred lord, Who chides, and snaps her up at every word ; A brutal sot,
who while she holds his head, With drunken tilth bedaubs the nuptial bed ..."
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