bemark
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From be- mark. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bemäärke, German Low German bemarken, German bemerken.
Verb
[edit]bemark (third-person singular simple present bemarks, present participle bemarking, simple past and past participle bemarked)
- (transitive, rare or obsolete) To mark with the sign of the cross; mark oneself.
- (transitive) To mark or cover with marks; mark up.
- 1960, Jack Kerouac, Lonesome traveler:
- [...] commuter frenzy as soon they'll be charging en masse from Market and Sansome buildings on foot and in buses and all well-dressed thru workingman Frisco of Walkup?? truck drivers and even the poor grime-bemarked Third Steet of lost bums [...]