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English
Etymology
From be- (“about, completely, all over”) + scrub.
Verb
bescrub (third-person singular simple present bescrubs, present participle bescrubbing, simple past and past participle bescrubbed)
- (transitive) To scrub around or about; scrub completely or all over.
1812, Edward Michael Ward, Oxoniana:To Renegados foul, who thus distort "Whate'er is lovely and of good report, Dashing loud libels at a College head, Filling the Cranium with suspicious dread, That whole of merits, Learning's highest claims, Soar not above the Groom's bescrubbing aims.
1918, Mary Aldis, Drift - Page 287:During the intermission an engaging nursery infant, bescrubbed and becurled, clad in "rompers" and wearing a wondering expression, had been steered gently about among the audience, holding out a porringer, into which contributions were liberally poured.
- 1921, Libraries: A Monthly Review of Library Matters and Methods:
- With bon ami, With Old Dutch Cleanser and with Naphtha soap, Bescrub my all so noble lineaments, That e'en a freshman can not look and say, "Why, there's Ty Cobb!"