bedabble

== English == === Etymology === From be- +‎ dabble. === Verb === bedabble (third-person singular simple present bedabbles, present participle bedabbling, simple past and past participle bedabbled) To dabble about or all over with moisture; make something wet by sprinkling or spattering water, paint, or other liquid on it. 1912, Charles Egbert Craddoc (pseudonym of Mary Noailles Murfree), “The Crucial Moment” in The Raid of the Guerilla[sic] and Other Stories, Philadelphia: Lippincott,[3] […] the weapon in Jeffrey's hand was discharged in his latest impulse of action after he fell to the floor, the blood gushing from a wound that crimsoned all the delicate whiteness of his shirt-front and bedabbled his snowy hair and beard. ==== Translations ====