bedaub

Meaning

  1. To smear upon; to soil.
  2. To ornament garishly; to overdecorate.

Etymology

From be- (“thoroughly, extensively”) + daub, from Old French dauber (“to plaster, whitewash”), from Latin dealbō (“whiten over, plaster”).

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