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bebark en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English beberken, biberken, equivalent to be- + bark.

Meanings

1. (poetic, rare, transitive) To bark at or about; to criticize.
   • The remnant, he accounts Dust, base world's dross; even who divinest spirits; Aye, and every lofty work of theirs bebarks, Presumption, still, with his hot carrion breath. 1906, Charles Montagu Doughty, The dawn in Britain:
   • With Morris such lapses are a rare exception, with Doughty fatally common and disastrous, as when certain gentlemen, audibly cavilling at some project, are said to 'bebark' it. Imagine Achilles bebarking a plan of Agamemnon's! 1954, Peter Russell, Nine:

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