bedrabblev.
/bɪˈdrab(ə)l/ transitive. To make wet and dirty with rain and mud.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with mud > dirty by trailing in mud
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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 28 Be-drabylyd or drabelyde, paludosus.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. xi. 170 Jacket and leather gaiters, sufficiently bedrabbled with mud.
1879 Scribner's Monthly July 334 The bedrabbled snows of March shrank away.
Derivatives
beˈdrabbling n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [noun] > muddiness > dirtiness by trailing in mud
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1884 Harper's Mag. Sept. 623/2 With no disfigurement of scorching or bedrabbling.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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