bedabble

[bih-dab-uhl]

verb (used with object), be·dab·bled, be·dab·bling.

to spatter or soil all over: clothes bedabbled with paint.

Origin:
1580–90; be- + dabble

Related forms

un·be·dab·bled, adjective

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