α. Middle English bydyngbyd (error).
β. 1600s bedungued, 1600s– bedunged.
bedungedadj.
/bᵻˈdʌŋd/, U.S. /bəˈdəŋd/, /biˈdəŋd/ Now chiefly archaic or used self-consciously for stylistic effect.
That has been soiled with or covered in dung.
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a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 33v Illitus, bydyngbyd [read bydyngyd].
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Bauduffle Litter, or bedungued straw.
1672 M. Atkins Cataplus 50 For here they'r cramb'd up in a hole Which always lies bedung'd and foul.
1702 Winstanley's New Help to Disc. (ed. 5) 115 He sunk down dead..; the neighbours..stript him, yet found no wound, but his Breeches sadly bedunged.
1785 Mem. & Adventures Flea I. vii. 199 Your property..is bedunged all over with human manure.
1868 F. J. Furnivall in Ballads from MSS (1868) I. 257 Turded farces, bedunged humbugs. [glossing Latin mimi mardati].
1929 D. Totheroh Men call Me Fool v. 44 The old peasant, in manurey smock and bedunged sabots, scratched a sparsely covered pate.
2000 Tel. & Gaz. (Worcester, Mass.) (Nexis) 29 May a3 The Royal Academy of Arts in London, which brought us the Young British Artists with their bedunged Madonna and mutilated mannequins, is at it again.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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