"bespawl" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1884 June 3, Joseph Rawicz, “Warsaw”, in Labor in Europe. Reports from the Consuls of the United States in the Several Countries of Europe on the Rates of Wages, Cost of Living to the Laboring Classes, Past and Present Wages, &c. in Their Several Districts, […] (United States Consular Reports), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1885, →OCLC, part II (Female Labor), page 1499",
          "text": "Some ten or more years ago the police authorities ordered the introduction of respirators for the use of workwomen in tobacco factories. Complying with this order, they purchased one respirator for a certain number of laborers, but it was good for nothing, as workwomen could use the respirators only by turns, and besides they had an aversion to apply to their mouths an object which was bespawled by others, consequently the respirators soon disappeared from tobacco manufactories.",
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          "text": "The doors are covered with the soot of the ages; the walls are bespattered with filth; the roof is closely covered with barbs; the floor is strewn with serpents and bespawled with all kinds of uncleanliness[.]",
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          "text": "[W]hile he would spit beyond the table, he all-to-bespawleth him who skinketh at the feast.",
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          "text": "There where the virginal daughters of our folk were fouled, / Where seven heathen flung each woman down, / And fought to pre-possess, possessed them, and bespawled: / The daughter in the presence of her mother, / The mother in the presence of her daughter, / Before slaughter, during slaughter, and after slaughter!",
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          "text": "Please forgive me for being such a complete bespawling ditz.\nAn adjective use.",
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        "To daub, make foul, or soil (someone or something) with spawl or spittle."
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          "word": "beslobber"
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          "text": "[W]hile he would spit beyond the table, he all-to-bespawleth him who skinketh at the feast.",
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          "text": "There where the virginal daughters of our folk were fouled, / Where seven heathen flung each woman down, / And fought to pre-possess, possessed them, and bespawled: / The daughter in the presence of her mother, / The mother in the presence of her daughter, / Before slaughter, during slaughter, and after slaughter!",
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