beslubber, v.
(bɪˈslʌbə(r))
Also 4–5 beslombre, beslomer.
[f. be- 1 + slubber v. The early beslom(b)er is probably merely a phonetic variant: Mätzner would make it distinct, comparing it with ‘Du. slommeren to trouble’; but see the sense.]
trans. To wet and soil with a thick liquid; to bedaub, bedabble, besmear. Hence beˈslubbered.
| c 1394 P. Pl. Crede 427 His hosen..Al beslombred [v.r. beslomered] in fen as he þe plow folwede. 1587 Golding De Mornay xviii. (1617) 317 A certain common conceiuing of God, howbeit so defaced and beslubbered. 1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 341 To beslubber our garments with it, and sweare it was the blood of true men. 1621 Molle Camerar. Liv. Libr. i. xv. 64 Perfumes..wherewith he vsed to sweeten and beslubber himselfe. 1748 Smollett Rod. Rand. iv. (1804) 14 A countenance beslubbered with tears. 1863 Baring-Gould Iceland xi. 197 The boiling jets squirt suddenly at one over the red beslubbered rim. |