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bejape

bejape verb: to play a trick on; trick or befool.

Verb

bejape (third-person singular simple present bejapes, present participle bejaping, simple past and past participle bejaped)

  1. (UK, dialectal, rare, transitive) To play a trick on; trick or befool.

Forms of bejape

third-person singular presentbejapes
present participlebejaping
past participlebejaped
pastbejaped

Origin of bejape

From Middle English bejapen, bijapen, equivalent to be- + jape. Cognate with Scots bejaip (“to befool”).

Questions about bejape

What does bejape mean?
Bejape means to play a trick on; trick or befool.
What part of speech is bejape?
Bejape is a verb.
What is the past tense of bejape?
The past tense of bejape is bejaped.

Words near bejape in the dictionary

  1. bejans
  2. bejant
  3. bejantine
  4. bejantines
  5. bejants
  6. bejape
  7. bejaped
  8. bejapes
  9. bejaping
  10. Bejar
  11. Bejarano

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