different between bedrop vs bedrip

English

Etymology

From Middle English bidroppen, equivalent to be- +? drop. Cognate with German betropfen.

Verb

bedrop (third-person singular simple present bedrops, present participle bedropping, simple past and past participle bedropped)

1. (archaic) To cover with drops; to splash or spatter.

Anagrams

• probed

English

Etymology 1

From be- (“on, about, all over”) +? drip.

Verb

bedrip (third-person singular simple present bedrips, present participle bedripping, simple past and past participle bedripped)

1. (intransitive) To drip about or all over; drip onto (something).
   • 1851, Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt, Richard Waddington (translator.), The morning-land:

     Wine shall break in sparkles o'er our lips bedripping; We are wise, and know we're by it gladden'd!

   • 1862, Poems from the German:

     But in that dark camp was a dauntless Emir, A levin of battle, they call'd him Zobir, In irefullest mood, His rattling spurs all bedripping with blood, He sped to his leader, and cried, "Thou essayest, Abdallah, the battle no more! […] "

Etymology 2

From Middle English bedrip, from Old English bedr?p (“compulsory service rendered to a landowner at harvest time, the reaping of corn on request”), from a compound of bed (“prayer, supplication, religious ordinance, service”) + r?p (“reaping, harvest”). More at bead, reap.

Alternative forms

• bederup (Ireland)
• bederepe, bidrepe (obsolete)

Noun

bedrip (plural bedrips)

1. (Britain dialectal) A band of harvesters.
2. (Britain dialectal) A crowd.

Anagrams

• prebid

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bederip, bedrep, bederp

Etymology

From Old English bedr?p, equivalent to bede (“request”) +? ripe (“reaping”)

Noun

bedrip (plural bedrips)

1. A day of reaping demanded from tenants by their feudal lord
2. (usually attributive) Something given as a substitute for reaping.
3. (rare) An individual obligated to perform this reaping.

Descendants

• English: bedrip
• Yola: bederup

References

• “bed-r??p(e, b??d-, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.