bespatter

动词 v.
中文释义
美 /biˈspætɚ/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To spatter or cover with something; sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance. transitive
  2. To soil by spattering. transitive
    — The flour bespattering Squeaker's now neglected clothes spoke eloquently of his clumsy efforts at damper making.
  3. To asperse with calumny or reproach; shend. figuratively,transitive
    — Beſides, he hath not been afraid to rail on you, my Lord, who are now appointed to be his Judge, calling you an ungodly Villain, with many other ſuch like vilifying terms, with which he hath beſpattered most of the Gentry of our Town.

词形变化

bespatters present,singular,third-person bespattering participle,present bespattered participle,past bespattered past

词汇关系

衍生词
bespatterer

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
Proto-Germanic *bider.
Proto-Germanic *bi-
Proto-West Germanic *bi-
Old English be-
Middle English bi-
English be-
English spatter
English bespatter
From be- + spatter.
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