v. 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 Beslubbered.
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. Shaks., 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.
