bedrop

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verb

To cover with drops; to splash or spatter.

OriginMiddle English bidroppen →
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Meanings

verbbedrop (third-person singular simple present bedrops, present participle bedropping, simple past and past participle bedropped)

present singular third person bedrops · participle present bedropping · participle past bedropped · past bedropped

  1. archaicTo cover with drops; to splash or spatter.

    He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man.

    1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 1, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC, page 13

Origin

  1. Middle Englishbidroppen
  2. Englishbedrop

From Middle English bidroppen, equivalent to be- + drop. Cognate with German betropfen.

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APA

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Chicago

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