bespatter

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I could have done nothing for you but bespatter you with the mire in which I wallowed, and I wanted you, my beautiful one—my pearl, my lily—to be spotless as mountain snow.

From The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week by Fleming, May Agnes

For the future you may besnuff and bespatter your coat as much as you please, for all the trouble I shall ever take.

From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel

"Oh mother!" said Eva, "you know it gives me a headache to brush boots, and I shall make my hands so dirty, and perhaps bespatter the floor with blacking as well."

From Story Lessons of Character Building (Morals) and Manners by Bates, Loïs

Can't some poetic swell-beau Re-christen old Crum Elbow And each prosaic bluff, Bold Breakneck gently flatter, And Dunderberg bespatter, With euphony and stuff!

From Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature by Various

Befoam, be-fōm′, v.t. to bespatter or cover with foam.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various