bescrub

Etymology

From be- (“about, completely, all over”) + scrub.

verb

To scrub around or about; scrub completely or all over.“To Renegados foul, who thus distort "Whate'er is lovely and of good report, Dashing loud libels at a College head, Filling the Cranium with suspicious dread, That whole of merits, Learning's highest claims, Soar not above the Groom's bescrubbing aims.”