The story
- Scots · derived frombegeck“to deceive, disappoint”
- English todaybegunk
Perhaps from a nasalised variant of Scots begeck (“to deceive, disappoint”), equivalent to be- + geck.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
begunk
Today it means: To befool; deceive; balk; jilt. Full definition →
Scots begeck