The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bedabble \Be*dab*ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedabbled; p. pr. &
vb. n. Bedabbling.]
To dabble; to sprinkle or wet.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. To dabble about or all over with moisture; make something wet by sprinkling or spattering water, paint, or other liquid on it.
Usage examples of "bedabble".
The head pushed forward, bringing into visibility thickly maned shoulders, forefeet with sharply split hooves as dreadfully bedabbled as the horns.
Over all her rich robes and state jewels she wore That wimple unseemly bedabbled with gore.
Trade Master marched with them to the end of the scattered burrows of the village, but the Watcher, though appearing bedabbled in her ceremonial paint, made no such concession to ceremony.
Now for a naked man, with a knife, and bedabbled with blood, to address a young woman on a lonely moor is a delicate business.
Over all her rich robes and state jewels she wore That wimple unseemly bedabbled with gore.
Trade Master marched with them to the end of the scattered burrows of the village, but the Watcher, though appearing bedabbled in her ceremonial paint, made no such concession to ceremony.
Deeply distressed, the manager sprang to his feet and asked what was the matter, then getting no answer climbed up on the seat and caressed him, cheek to cheek, so that his own face was bedabbled by the trapeze artist's tears.
And eke, in the hall, where they all sat at dine, When she knelt to her father and proffer'd the wine, Over all her rich robes and state jewels she wore That wimple unseemly bedabbled with gore.
Him I found already at his desk and already bedabbled with maccabaw, in the same anteroom where I rencountered with James More.