Bespawl

Quick meaning: Bespawl is a verb meaning (transitive, obsolete) To daub, make foul, or soil (someone or something) with spawl or spittle.

Meaning

(transitive, obsolete) To daub, make foul, or soil (someone or something) with spawl or spittle.

Example Sentences

[W]hile he would spit beyond the table, he all-to-bespawleth him who skinketh at the feast.

Old Proteus hath been knovvne to leaue his finny Heard, / And in their ſight to ſpunge his foame-beſpavvled beard.

See hovv this Remonſtrant vvould inveſt himſelfe conditionally vvith all the rheume of the Tovvne, that hee might have ſufficient to beſpaul his Brethren.

The doors are covered with the soot of the ages; the walls are bespattered with filth; the roof is closely covered with barbs; the floor is strewn with serpents and bespawled with all kinds of uncleanliness[.]

Word Forms

• bespawls
• bespawling
• bespawled
• bespaul

Synonyms for bespawl

Depending on context, synonyms include beslobber, bespit, bespittle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bespew, spawl, beslobber, bespattle, bespatter, splutter.

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