bespattered
English edit
Verb edit
bespattered
- simple past and past participle of bespatter
- 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 255–256:
- She had been even bespattered with praise, so abundantly had it been showered upon her;
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 111:
- Soon King-of-the-Sky appeared sauntering, mud-bespattered, through Leeward Village, the shotgun on his shoulder and the sandpiper swinging in his hand.
Adjective edit
bespattered (not comparable)
- covered in spots of splashed liquid
Translations edit
covered in spots of splashed liquid
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