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Webster 1913 Edition

Bedaub

Be-daub′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bedaubed
([GREEK]);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Bedaubing
.]
To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty.
Bedaub
foul designs with a fair varnish.
Barrow.

Webster 1828 Edition

Bedaub

BEDAUB'

,
Verb.
T.
[be and daub.] To daub over; to besmear with viscous, slimy matter; to soil with any thing thick and dirty.

Definition 2025

bedaub

bedaub

English

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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 9780807832868, 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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From be- ‎(“thoroughly, extensively”) +‎ daub, from Old French dauber ‎(“to plaster, whitewash”), from Latin dealbō ‎(“whiten over, plaster”).

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