Soaked, muddied, or dirtied by being dragged through wet or filthy material; disheveled and stained.
Past participle of 'bedrabble' (prefix 'be-' plus 'drabble'). Describes something covered in mud or wet filth.
In 18th-century novels, a heroine's bedrabbled gown was the physical evidence of her misadventure—literally wearing her mishaps on her clothes for everyone to see.
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