besprenge

• bespreng

From Middle English besprengen, from Old English besprenġan, equivalent to be- (“about; all over”) +‎ springe (“to sprinkle”).

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈspɹɛnd͡ʒ/

besprenge (third-person singular simple present besprenges, present participle besprenging, simple past and past participle besprent)

1. (obsolete except as past participle adjective) To sprinkle or scatter.
   • 1927, H.T. Lowe-Porter, translation of Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, Knopf 1946 [1927], p. 564:

     His placidity was fully restored by the appearance of the steaming dishes, with their burden of canary-yellow besprent with green, which dispersed a mild warm fragrance of eggs and butter upon the air.

   • 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 78:

     his ample mush was pleated with fat, wormed with the great pox and so besprent with whelks, bubules and burst capillaries that it seemed like a contour map of the Trossachs.

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besprenge

1. Inflected form of besprengen