Bescrub
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Bescrub is a verb meaning (transitive) To scrub around or about; scrub completely or all over.
Meaning
(transitive) To scrub around or about; scrub completely or all over.
Example Sentences
With bon ami, With Old Dutch Cleanser and with Naphtha soap, Bescrub my all so noble lineaments, That e'en a freshman can not look and say, "Why, there's Ty Cobb!"
To Renegados foul, who thus distort "Whate'er is lovely and of good report, Dashing loud libels at a College head, Filling the Cranium with suspicious dread, That whole of merits, Learning's highest claims, Soar not above the Groom's bescrubbing aims.
During the intermission an engaging nursery infant, bescrubbed and becurled, clad in "rompers" and wearing a wondering expression, had been steered gently about among the audience, holding out a porringer, into which contributions were liberally poured.
Word Forms
- bescrubs
- bescrubbing
- bescrubbed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bescorch, rescrub, offscour, scour, bescare, sweep.
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