Bedrop vs Bedrip - What's the difference?
bedrop | bedrip |
(archaic) To cover with drops; to splash or spatter.
* 1852 , Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (page 13)
To drip about or all over; drip onto (something).
*1825 , Thomas Gray, The works of Thomas Gray :
*1851 , Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt, Richard Waddington (translator.), The morning-land :
*1862 , Poems from the German:
*1919 , Florence Willingham Pickard, Between scarlet thrones :
As verbs the difference between bedrop and bedrip
is that bedrop is to cover with drops; to splash or spatter while bedrip is to drip about or all over; drip onto (something).As a noun bedrip is
a band of harvesters.bedrop
English
Verb
(bedropp)- He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man.
bedrip
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Etymology 1
From .Verb
(bedripp)- "And bold Aneurim, all bedripped with gore Bursting by force from the beleaguered glen, Arrogant, haughty, fierce, of fiery mood, Not meek and mean, as Gray misunderstood. [...]"
- Wine shall break in sparkles o'er our lips bedripping ; We are wise, and know we're by it gladden'd!
- But in that dark camp was a dauntless Emir, A levin of battle, they call'd him Zobir, In irefullest mood, His rattling spurs all bedripping with blood, He sped to his leader, and cried, "Thou essayest, Abdallah, the battle no more! [...]"
- And when the grewsome work was finished, she thought it not ill to walk slowly to her palace through the open streets in her blood bedripped garments, that Ahab's subjects might perceive Jezebel took horrible vengeance on those who [...]