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bedaub (iou)



bedaub verb trans. M16.
[from BE- 1 + DAUB verb.]
Besmear; fig. vilify. M16.
T. Otway The names of Honest Men bedawb'd. P. H. Gosse With a painter's brush had bedaubed the trunks of several large trees.
Overload with ornamentation; bedizen. L16.
Marvell Set off, and bedawb'd with Rhetorick. M. W. Montagu All bedaubed with diamonds.