v. Chiefly in ppl. adj. Bedrabbled. [f. BE- 2 + DRABBLE.] trans. To make wet and dirty with rain and mud.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 28. Be-drabylyd or drabelyde, paludosus.
1850. Kingsley, Alt. Locke, xi. Jacket and leather gaiters, sufficiently bedrabbled with mud.
1879. Scribn. Mag., July, 334. The bedrabbled snows of March shrank away.
Hence Bedrabbling vbl. sb.
1884. Harper’s Mag., Sept., 623/1. With no disfigurement of scorching or bedrabbling.
