单词 | bedung |
释义 | bedungv. Now chiefly archaic or used self-consciously for stylistic effect. 1. a. transitive. To soil or cover (a person, place, etc.) with dung; spec. to drop excrement on; to defecate on.rare in 19th cent.In quot. c1450 as part of a moral allegory. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with excrement beshiteOE bedo?c1225 soil1297 bedungc1450 beray1575 foul1588 becack1598 bescumber1598 bemute1634 immerd1635 conskite1653 crap1846 pooh1989 c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 161 The hors is euele wil that bereth me and is redy..to ley hire there the dunge is and bidunge hire... Bi him j am thus soiled and bidunged and defouled and he also. 1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall vi. sig. B4v Our Kirk-courtes or yardes, are..ordinarly bedunged by pestring and pasturing brute. 1640 tr. J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Reserata (new ed.) xiv. §157 What he [sc. the thrush] bedungeth [L. conspurcat], that sprouteth forth to misselden, whence comes bird-lime. 1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 35 He [sc. a vulture]..preys on my Liver, Lights, and Lungs, and in my Paunch his beak bedungs. 1755 tr. J.-H. Maubert de Gouvest Conversat. on Polite Life v. 92 A Condor..perched upon the Cupola.., and did not fly away till he had plentifully bedunged the Place. 1945 Iola (Kansas) Reg. 17 Sept. 4/3 The black birds have bedunged the courthouse park. 1992 Sunday Times (Nexis) 19 July Its portrait of 1849 London is of a metropolis plagued by the evils of effluence. Dray horses copiously bedung the Strand. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > slander or calumniate [verb (transitive)] to say or speak shame of, on, byc950 teleeOE sayOE to speak evil (Old English be) ofc1000 belie?c1225 betell?c1225 missayc1225 skandera1300 disclanderc1300 wrenchc1300 bewrayc1330 bite1330 gothele1340 slanderc1340 deprave1362 hinderc1375 backbite1382 blasphemec1386 afamec1390 fame1393 to blow up?a1400 defamea1400 noise1425 to say well (also evil, ill, etc.) of (also by)1445 malignc1450 to speak villainy of1470 infame1483 injury1484 painta1522 malicea1526 denigrate1526 disfamea1533 misreporta1535 sugill?1539 dishonest?c1550 calumniate1554 scandalize1566 ill1577 blaze1579 traduce1581 misspeak1582 blot1583 abuse1592 wronga1596 infamonize1598 vilify1598 injure?a1600 forspeak1601 libel1602 infamize1605 belibel1606 calumnize1606 besquirt1611 colly1615 scandala1616 bedirt1622 soil1641 disfigurea1643 sycophant1642 spatter1645 sugillate1647 bespattera1652 bedung1655 asperse1656 mischieve1656 opprobriatea1657 reflect1661 dehonestate1663 carbonify1792 defamate1810 mouth1810 foul-mouth1822 lynch1836 rot1890 calumny1895 ding1903 bad-talk1938 norate1938 bad-mouth1941 monster1967 1655 R. Baxter Quakers Catech. 9 Those men..who make it their businesse to exalt themselves.., and to revile and bedung other men with their reproaches. 1766 J. M. Adair Methodist & Mimick 17 Never as long as I've a Rag, Or I a Tongue, or Pen can wag, Nor friendly Converse hold among ye, But while I live will still bedung ye. 1772 Morning Chron. 18 July Wilt thou for ever from the press bedung us? ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > fertilize or manure [verb (transitive)] gooda1525 marl1528 plentify1555 fat1562 fatten1563 season1563 heart1573 manure1577 soil1593 hearten1594 remanure1598 enrich1601 teasel1610 battle1611 batten1612 bedung1649 sweeten1733 top-dress1733 top1856 side-dress1888 1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions ii. ii. 110 Leaving all but his [sc. Goliath's] head, to bedung that earth, which had lately shaken at his terrour. 1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros ix. 132 Great Jalcanaius..now leaveth but his body to bedung that earth that was lately shaken at his terror. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.c1450 |
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