ppl. a. Obs. rare. In 4 bi-, bysmotered, -erd, 6 Sc. besmotterit. [A simple smotered or smoteren does not occur: though Chaucer has an adj. smoterlich, which Prof. Skeat takes as = ‘dial. smutty, wanton.’ The Du. smodderen to smut, and LG. besmaddern, have been compared, but do not quite answer phonetically. The form looks like a freq. or dim. of besmut, but neither this nor smut is found so early. Douglas evidently took the word from Chaucer.]
trans. To bespatter as with mud or dirt.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Prol., 76. Of ffustian he wered a gypon Al bismotered with his habergeon.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, V. vi. 124. His face he schew besmotterit.
