"bescrub" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From be- (“about, completely, all over”) + scrub.",
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          "ref": "1812, Edward Michael Ward, Oxoniana",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1918, Mary Aldis, Drift - Page 287",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1921, Libraries: A Monthly Review of Library Matters and Methods",
          "text": "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!\""
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        "To scrub around or about; scrub completely or all over."
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        "(transitive) To scrub around or about; scrub completely or all over."
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  "word": "bescrub"
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  "etymology_text": "From be- (“about, completely, all over”) + scrub.",
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          "text": "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.",
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        {
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          "text": "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!\""
        }
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        "To scrub around or about; scrub completely or all over."
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        "(transitive) To scrub around or about; scrub completely or all over."
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