bedaubv.
/bɪˈdɔːb/ 1.
a. transitive. To daub over with anything that sticks, to plaster.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > smear or spread with a substance
smear971
dechea1000
cleamc1000
besmearc1050
clamc1380
glue1382
pargeta1398
overslame?1440
plaster?1440
beslab1481
strike1525
bestrike1527
streak1540
bedaub1558
spread1574
daub1598
paste1609
beplaster1611
circumlite1657
oblite1657
fata1661
gaum?1825
treacle1839
butter1882
slap1902
slather1941
nap1961
1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos ii. (R.) But now in dust his beard bedawb'd [is].
1683 P. Lorrain tr. P. Muret Rites Funeral 5 They all bedawbed their faces with mire and dirt.
1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music §6. 119 Thespis and his Company bedaubed their Faces with the Lees of Wine.
1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 24 And with a painter's brush [he] had bedaubed the trunks of several large trees.
b. figurative. To bespatter with abuse, to vilify.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > abuse [verb (transitive)]
vilea1300
rebutc1330
revilea1393
arunt1399
stainc1450
brawl1474
vituper1484
rebalk1501
to call (rarely to speak) (all) to naught1542
rattle1542
vituperate1542
bedaub1570
beray1576
bespurt1579
wring1581
misuse1583
caperclaw1589
abuse1592
rail1592
exagitate1593
to shoot atc1595
belabour1596
to scour one's mouth on1598
bespurtle1604
conviciate1604
scandala1616
delitigate1623
betongue1639
bespatter1644
rant1647
palt1648
opprobriatea1657
pelt1658
proscind1659
inveigh1670
clapperclaw1692
blackguard1767
philippize1804
drub1811
foul-mouth1822
bullyrag1823
target1837
barge1841
to light on ——1842
slang1844
villainize1857
slangwhang1880
slam-bang1888
vituperize1894
bad-mouth1941
slag1958
zing1962
to dump on (occasionally all over)1967
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 688/1 Your dyrtie pen..hath not so bedaubed and bespotted me..but I hope to spunge it out.
1662 S. Pepys Diary 30 Oct. (1970) III. 243 He prepares to bedawbe him.
1680 T. Otway Orphan Prol. sig. A4v The names of Honest men bedawb'd.
2.
a. To ornament clumsily or vulgarly; to bedizen.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > ornament [verb (transitive)] > adorn cheaply or gaudily
bedaub1581
plaster1585
daub1594
begaudy1640
betawder1682
tawder1716
bedizen1786
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 309 They bedawbe their Temples on every side, with pictures, and Poppettes.
1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 16 Jan. (1965) I. 294 The Emperour and Empresse have 2 of these little monsters..all bedaw'd with Di'monds.
1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges i. 51 The English..are now embroidered and bedaubed.
b. figurative. To load with rhetorical devices, with praise, etc.; to belaud to excess.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > commend or praise [verb (transitive)] > supremely or excessively
crownc1175
overpraisea1387
overhighc1400
bedaub1581
superexalt1610
to speak a person fara1616
allaud1621
rave1621
stellify1628
beatifya1677
bepraise1774
to jump down a person's throat1809
rapturize1822
belauda1849
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 493 Untymely applications, wherewith his discourse is altogether bedawbedd.
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 23 Set off, and bedawb'd with Rhetorick.
1793 J. Boswell Life Johnson (ed. 2) anno 1778 III. 57 That I..should have..bedawbed him, as the worthy gentleman has bedawbed Scotland?
Derivatives
beˈdaubed adj.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [adjective] > cheaply or gaudily ornamented
tawdry1676
tinselled1738
fripperied over1858
bedaubed1863
tarted1958
1863 M. L. Whately Ragged Life Egypt xii. 105 Disgust at the bedaubed face of the little one.
bedaubing n.
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1624 F. Quarles Sions Sonn. (1717) 416 A newer fashion..Than eye bedawbing tears, and printed lamentation.
bedaubing adj.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [adjective] > smearing with a substance
bedaubing1791
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > [adjective] > of words or expressions > to excess
bedaubing1791
1791 R. Burns Let. Mar. (1987) 319 Those damn'd, bedaubing paragraphs with which he is eternally larding the lean characters of certain Great Men.
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