bedrop
English
Etymology
From Middle English bidroppen, equivalent to be- + drop. Cognate with German betropfen.
Verb
bedrop (third-person singular simple present bedrops, present participle bedropping, simple past and past participle bedropped)
- (archaic) To cover with drops; to splash or spatter.
- 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 1, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC, page 13:
- He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man.