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bespurt

bespurt verb: to spurt on or over; to sprinkle.

Verb

bespurt (third-person singular simple present bespurts, present participle bespurting, simple past and past participle bespurted)

  1. (obsolete) To spurt on or over; to sprinkle.
    • [I]t will be nothing diſagreeing from Chriſtian meekneſſe to handle ſuch a one in a rougher accent, and to ſend home his haughtineſſe well beſpurted with his owne holy-water.1641, [John Milton], “The Preface”, in Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 2

Forms of bespurt

third-person singular presentbespurts
present participlebespurting
past participlebespurted
pastbespurted
alternative formbespirt

Origin of bespurt

From be- + spurt.

Questions about bespurt

What does bespurt mean?
Bespurt means to spurt on or over; to sprinkle.
What part of speech is bespurt?
Bespurt is a verb.
What is the past tense of bespurt?
The past tense of bespurt is bespurted.

Words near bespurt in the dictionary

  1. besprinklers
  2. besprinkles
  3. besprinkling
  4. bespue
  5. bespurred
  6. bespurt
  7. bespurted
  8. bespurting
  9. bespurts
  10. bespy
  11. bespying

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