to make wet or damp in such a way as to make dirty or untidy
bedabble in American English
(bɪˈdæbəl)
transitive verbWord forms: -bled, -bling
to spatter or soil all over
clothes bedabbled with paint
Word origin
[1580–90; be- + dabble]This word is first recorded in the period 1580–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: academic, bomb, category, critical, scramblebe- is a native English prefix formerly used in the formation of verbs. Other words thatuse the affix be- include: become, bedaub, befriend, besiege