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begay en · VERB

Etymology

From be- + gay.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To make cheerful or merry.
   • When in the oration ther is nothing rightly and properly spoken, but all is to muche befigured and begayed. 2007, Robert H. F. Carver, Search ResultsThe Protean ass:
   • For Lu was the girl she seemed, and Wang was a boy — a boy, dressed in girl's clothes, even to the crimson ribbons of maidenhood begaying his hair: [...] 1925, Louise Jordan Miln, The soul of China: glimpsed in tales of today and yesterday:
   • I find it the finest land & folk yet, finer even than Denmark & the Danes, though truly not so begaying & behopefulling. 1985, Percy Grainger, Kay Dreyfus, The farthest north of humanness:

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