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begay

begay verb: to make cheerful or merry.

Verb

begay (third-person singular simple present begays, present participle begaying, simple past and past participle begayed)

  1. (transitive) To make cheerful or merry.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of begay

third-person singular presentbegays
present participlebegaying
past participlebegayed
pastbegayed

Origin of begay

From be- + gay.

Questions about begay

What does begay mean?
Begay means to make cheerful or merry.
What part of speech is begay?
Begay is a verb.
What is the past tense of begay?
The past tense of begay is begayed.

Words near begay in the dictionary

  1. begauming
  2. begaums
  3. begave
  4. begavolt
  5. begavolts
  6. begay
  7. begayed
  8. begaying
  9. begays
  10. begaze
  11. begazed

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