Meanings
adjectivebesmeared (comparative more besmeared, superlative most besmeared)
comparative more besmeared · superlative most besmeared
- Smeared over; soiled, sullied.
In an other corner, Mistris Minx, a marchants wife, that will eate no cherries, forsooth, but when they are at twentie shillings a pound, that lookes as simperingly as if she were besmeard, and iets it as gingerly as if she were dancing the canaries, […]
1592, Thomas Nash[e], Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Deuill. […], London: […] [John Charlewood for] Richard Ihones, […], →OCLC
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of besmear
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