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Meaning of begaum | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To smear (with something sticky or messy).

UK, US, dialectal, past, rare

Examples

“Honest toil! The kind that bedews a guy's brow with honest sweat and also begaums it with what came from the crank case and off the axle; […]”
“He was wearing jeans and a blue shirt too, but they wasn't all begaumed, the shirt had been clean afore he sweated it out clumbing up the hill.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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