bebark

present singular third person bebarks · participle present bebarking · participle past bebarked · past bebarked

1. poeticraretransitiveTo bark at or about; to criticize.

   The remnant, he accounts Dust, base world's dross; even who divinest spirits; Aye, and every lofty work of theirs bebarks, Presumption, still, with his hot carrion breath.

   1906, Charles Montagu Doughty, The dawn in Britain

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   With Morris such lapses are a rare exception, with Doughty fatally common and disastrous, as when certain gentlemen, audibly cavilling at some project, are said to 'bebark' it. Imagine Achilles bebarking a plan of Agamemnon's!

   1954, Peter Russell, Nine