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bedrabble, v.|bɪˈdræb(ə)l| Chiefly in ppl. adj. bedrabbled. [f. be- 2 + drabble.] trans. To make wet and dirty with rain and mud.
c1440Promp. Parv. 28 Be-drabylyd or drabelyde, paludosus. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke xi, Jacket and leather gaiters, sufficiently bedrabbled with mud. 1879Scribn. Mag. July 334 The bedrabbled snows of March shrank away. Hence beˈdrabbling vbl. n.
1884Harper's Mag. Sept. 623/2 With no disfigurement of scorching or bedrabbling. |