bedaub

English

Alternative forms
  • bedawb

Etymology

From be- (“thoroughly, extensively”) +‎ daub, from Old French dauber (“to plaster, whitewash”), from Latin dealbō (“whiten over, plaster”).

Verb

bedaub (third-person singular simple present bedaubs, present participle bedaubing, simple past and past participle bedaubed)

  1. (transitive) To smear upon; to soil.
    • 2009, Noeleen McIlvenna, quoting journal, 1711, A Very Mutinous People‎, Univ of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 18:
      In this 6 mile we Crosst several miring branches in which we were all terribly bedaubed … Having almost spent the day in this toilsome tho short Journey.
  2. (transitive) To ornament garishly; to overdecorate.

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