bedrabble
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English bedrabelen, equivalent to be- + drabble.
Verb
editbedrabble (third-person singular simple present bedrabbles, present participle bedrabbling, simple past and past participle bedrabbled)
- (transitive) To befoul with rain and mud.
See also
editPart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bedrabble”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)