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bedaub, v.|bɪˈdɔːb|
[f. be- 1 + daub v.]
1. trans. To daub over with anything that sticks, to plaster.
1558Phaër æneid ii. (R.) But now in dust his beard bedawb'd [is]. 1683P. Lorrain Muret's Rites Fun. 5 They all bedawbed their faces with mire and dirt. 1763J. Brown Poetry & Mus. §6. 119 Thespis and his Company bedaubed their Faces with the Lees of Wine. 1860Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 24 And with a painter's brush [he] had bedaubed the trunks of several large trees.
b. fig. To bespatter with abuse, to vilify.
1553–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 532/1 Your dirtie pen..hath not so bedaubed and bespotted me..but I hope to spunge it out. 1662Pepys Diary 30 Oct., He prepares to bedaube him. 1705Otway Orphan Prol. 18 The names of Honest Men bedawb'd.
2. To ornament clumsily or vulgarly; to bedizen.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 309 They bedawbe their Temples on every side, with pictures, and Poppettes. 1716Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. xxii. I. 67 The emperor and empress have two of these little monsters..all bedaubed with diamonds. 1862Thackeray Four Georges i. (1862) 63 Are now embroidered and bedaubed.
b. fig. To load with rhetorical devices, with praise, etc.; to belaud to excess.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 493 Untymely applications, wherewith his discourse is altogether bedawbedd. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 23 Set off, and bedawb'd with Rhetorick. 1790Boswell Johnson III. 57 note, That I..should have..bedawbed him, as the worthy gentleman has bedawbed Scotland?
beˈdaubed, -ing ppl. a., bedaubing vbl. n.
1624Quarles Sion's Sonn. (1717) 416 A newer fashion..Than eye bedawbing tears, and printed lamentation. 1788Burns Lett. 40 Those bedaubing paragraphs with which he is eternally larding the lean characters of certain great men. 1863M. L. Whately Ragged L. Egypt xii. 105 Disgust at the bedaubed face of the little one. |