Bedrip
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A band of harvesters. UK, dialectal
- 2 A crowd. UK, dialectal
- 1 To drip about or all over; drip onto (something). intransitive
""And bold Aneurim, all bedripped with gore Bursting by force from the beleaguered glen, Arrogant, haughty, fierce, of fiery mood, Not meek and mean, as Gray misunderstood. […]""
Example
More examples""And bold Aneurim, all bedripped with gore Bursting by force from the beleaguered glen, Arrogant, haughty, fierce, of fiery mood, Not meek and mean, as Gray misunderstood. […]""
Etymology
From be- (“on, about, all over”) + drip.
From Middle English bedrip, from Old English bedrīp (“compulsory service rendered to a landowner at harvest time, the reaping of corn on request”), from a compound of bed (“prayer, supplication, religious ordinance, service”) + rīp (“reaping, harvest”). More at bead, reap.
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