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bespaul

bespaul is the alternative spelling of bespawl.

Meaning of bespawl

Verb

bespawl (third-person singular simple present bespawls, present participle bespawling, simple past and past participle bespawled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To daub, make foul, or soil (someone or something) with spawl or spittle.
    • [T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad thy ſpurious Snotteries, / Vpon that puft-up Lumpe of Barmy froth, / […] / Or Clumſy Chil-blain'd Iudgement; that, vvith Oath, / Magnificates his Merit; and beſpaules / The conſcious Time, vvith humorous Fome; & bravvles, / As if his Organons of...1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii

Forms of bespaul

third-person singular presentbespauls
present participlebespauling
past participlebespauled
pastbespauled

Questions about bespaul

What is bespaul the alternative spelling of?
Bespaul is the alternative spelling of bespawl.

Words near bespaul in the dictionary

  1. bespatterings
  2. bespatterment
  3. bespatterments
  4. bespatters
  5. bespattle
  6. bespaul
  7. bespauled
  8. bespauling
  9. bespauls
  10. bespawl
  11. bespawled

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