bedrip

present singular third person bedrips · participle present bedripping · participle past bedripped · past bedripped

1. intransitiveTo drip about or all over; drip onto (something).

   Wine shall break in sparkles o'er our lips bedripping; We are wise, and know we're by it gladden'd!

   1851, Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt, translated by Richard Waddington, The morning-land

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   "And bold Aneurim, all bedripped with gore Bursting by force from the beleaguered glen, Arrogant, haughty, fierce, of fiery mood, Not meek and mean, as Gray misunderstood. […]"

   1825, Thomas Gray, The works of Thomas Gray

   But in that dark camp was a dauntless Emir, A levin of battle, they call'd him Zobir, In irefullest mood, His rattling spurs all bedripping with blood, He sped to his leader, and cried, "Thou essayest, Abdallah, the battle no more! […] "

   1862, Poems from the German

   And when the grewsome work was finished, she thought it not ill to walk slowly to her palace through the open streets in her blood bedripped garments, that Ahab's subjects might perceive Jezebel took horrible vengeance on those who […]

   1919, Florence Willingham Pickard, Between scarlet thrones

plural bedrips · alternative bederup · alternative bederepe · alternative bidrepe

1. UKdialectalA band of harvesters.
2. UKdialectalA crowd.