besmeared

English

Adjective

besmeared (comparative more besmeared, superlative most besmeared)

1. Smeared over; soiled, sullied.
   • 1592, Thomas Nash[e], Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Deuill. […], London: […] [John Charlewood for] Richard Ihones, […], →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] Payne Collier, editor, Pierce Penniless’s Supplication to the Devil. […], London: […] [Frederic Shoberl, Jun.] for the Shakespeare Society, 1842, →OCLC, page 21:

     In an other corner, Mistris Minx, a marchants wife, that will eate no cherries, forsooth, but when they are at twentie shillings a pound, that lookes as simperingly as if she were besmeard, and iets it as gingerly as if she were dancing the canaries, […]

Derived terms

• unbesmeared

 

Verb

besmeared

1. simple past and past participle of besmear

Anagrams

• amber seed