"bespurt" meaning in All languages combined

See bespurt on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: bespurts [present, singular, third-person], bespurting [participle, present], bespurted [participle, past], bespurted [past], bespirt [alternative]
Etymology: From be- + spurt. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|be|spurt}} be- + spurt Head templates: {{en-verb}} bespurt (third-person singular simple present bespurts, present participle bespurting, simple past and past participle bespurted)
  1. (obsolete) To spurt on or over; to sprinkle. Tags: obsolete

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "be",
        "3": "spurt"
      },
      "expansion": "be- + spurt",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From be- + spurt.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bespurts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bespurting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bespurted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bespurted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bespirt",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bespurt (third-person singular simple present bespurts, present participle bespurting, simple past and past participle bespurted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with be-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              139,
              148
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1641, [John Milton], “The Preface”, in Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 2:",
          "text": "[I]t will be nothing diſagreeing from Chriſtian meekneſſe to handle ſuch a one in a rougher accent, and to ſend home his haughtineſſe well beſpurted with his owne holy-water.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To spurt on or over; to sprinkle."
      ],
      "id": "en-bespurt-en-verb-eSWrnj9v",
      "links": [
        [
          "spurt",
          "spurt"
        ],
        [
          "sprinkle",
          "sprinkle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To spurt on or over; to sprinkle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bespurt"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "be",
        "3": "spurt"
      },
      "expansion": "be- + spurt",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From be- + spurt.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bespurts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bespurting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bespurted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bespurted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bespirt",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bespurt (third-person singular simple present bespurts, present participle bespurting, simple past and past participle bespurted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with be-",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              139,
              148
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1641, [John Milton], “The Preface”, in Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 2:",
          "text": "[I]t will be nothing diſagreeing from Chriſtian meekneſſe to handle ſuch a one in a rougher accent, and to ſend home his haughtineſſe well beſpurted with his owne holy-water.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To spurt on or over; to sprinkle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "spurt",
          "spurt"
        ],
        [
          "sprinkle",
          "sprinkle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To spurt on or over; to sprinkle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bespurt"
}

Download raw JSONL data for bespurt meaning in All languages combined (1.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-20 using wiktextract (074e7de and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.