Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To daub with or as with slime; soil.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To daub with slime; to soil.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive, archaic To make dirty with something slimy; befoul
  • verb transitive, archaic To insult, to say negative things about.
  • verb transitive To cover or daub with slime; slime.

Etymologies

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From be- +‎ slime.

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Examples

  • I once mentioned a little saweiety sheet, published in New York, under the title of Town Topics, because it afforded me a kind of languid pleasure to kick the feculent sewer-rat back into the foul cloaca from which it had crawled to beslime the ICONOCLAST.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • Must I also hear your foul mouth beslime her royal birth, and the honour of her divine mother, and spit sneers at Amen, Father of the gods?

    Morning Star Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • And then -- after saying that "the friends of American Slavery need not beslime the President with their praise.

    The Great Conspiracy, Volume 5 John Alexander Logan 1856

  • And then -- after saying that "the friends of American Slavery need not beslime the President with their praise.

    The Great Conspiracy, Complete John Alexander Logan 1856

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