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verb
To cover with thatch; to thatch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive, uncommon
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verb
To cover with hair.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, humorous, nonce-word, transitive, uncommon
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History
From Middle English bithecchen, from Old English beþeċċan (“to cover; protect; cover over; conceal”), from Proto-West Germanic *biþakkjan, equivalent to be- + thatch. Cognate with Dutch bedekken (“to cover”), German bedecken (“to cover”). More at its doublet bedeck. Alteration in vowel after Middle English perhaps due to thatch.
