Bethatch

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To cover with thatch; to thatch. transitive, uncommon

    "Part it behind, like terrier's back, Bethatch the front like wheaten stack, […]"

  2. 2
    To cover with hair. broadly, humorous, nonce-word, transitive, uncommon

    "Both are coolly intense, well bethatched, bell-bottomed and bespectacled."

Example

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"Part it behind, like terrier's back, Bethatch the front like wheaten stack, […]"

Etymology

From Middle English bithecchen, from Old English beþeċċan (“to cover; protect; cover over; conceal”), from Proto-West Germanic *biþakkjan, equivalent to be- + thatch. Cognate with Dutch bedekken (“to cover”), German bedecken (“to cover”). More at its doublet bedeck. Alteration in vowel after Middle English perhaps due to thatch.

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