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Apr. 3, 2014
Word of the Day

bedash Audio Pronunciation
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\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.
Quotes
And for twenty times made pause to sob and weep / That all t... See full quote
-- William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1606
Origin
Bedash entered English in the mid-1500s. 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."
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