Word of the Day for Saturday 12th April 2014
Bedash \ bih-DASH \,
Verb:
1. To dash or spatter (something) all over: to bedash a salad with pepper.
2.
To dash or strike against: windows bedashed with rain.
3.
To demolish or ruin; obliterate: His dreams of glory were quickly
bedashed.
Quotes:
And for twenty times made pause to sob and weep / That all the standers -by had wet their cheeks / Like trees bedash'd with rain in that sad time /
My manly eyes did scorn a humble tear.
-- William Shakespeare, King Lear , 1606
Let my blood bedash my proper brow, for such a wrong.
-- Elizabeth Cary, Edited by Stephanie Hodgson-Wright, "The Tragedy of Mariam," Women's Writing of the Early Modern
Period: 1588-1688 , 2002
Origin:
Bedash entered English in the mid 1500’s. It is a combination of the prefix
be, which was used in Old English in the formation of verbs, and the root
dash, meaning "to apply roughly."
Thanks to: www.dictionary.com
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