bescrub

present singular third person bescrubs · participle present bescrubbing · participle past bescrubbed · past bescrubbed

1. transitiveTo scrub around or about; scrub completely or all over.

   With bon ami, With Old Dutch Cleanser and with Naphtha soap, Bescrub my all so noble lineaments, That e'en a freshman can not look and say, "Why, there's Ty Cobb!"

   1921, Libraries: A Monthly Review of Library Matters and Methods

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   To Renegados foul, who thus distort "Whate'er is lovely and of good report, Dashing loud libels at a College head, Filling the Cranium with suspicious dread, That whole of merits, Learning's highest claims, Soar not above the Groom's bescrubbing aims.

   1812, Edward Michael Ward, Oxoniana

   During the intermission an engaging nursery infant, bescrubbed and becurled, clad in "rompers" and wearing a wondering expression, had been steered gently about among the audience, holding out a porringer, into which contributions were liberally poured.

   1918, Mary Aldis, Drift - Page 287