bewash

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ wash.

Verb

bewash (third-person singular simple present bewashes, present participle bewashing, simple past and past participle bewashed)

1. (transitive, rare) To wash all over; drench with water.
   • 1901, Three northern love stories and other tales:

     " […] And me no more shall any Gold glittering of the maidens Henceforth, in all my life-days, In ashen bath bewash me."

   • 1648, Robert Herrick, “Saint Distaff's Day”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: H. G. Clarke and Co., […], 1844, →OCLC:

     Let the maids bewash the men.

     The spelling has been modernized.