emporridging

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Did he approach the table with a second dish of pork-and-beans, a yellow dish of beans, browned delicately as a Sevres vase, then would some full-fed rogue, waiting until Joseph was bending over some devoted head, say sharply, "Drop that, Joseph!" whereupon down went dish and contents, emporridging the poll and person of the luckless wight beneath.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862