begay

B3E1G2A1Y4

verb

To make cheerful or merry.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person begays · participle present begaying · participle past begayed · past begayed

  1. transitiveTo 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
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    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

Origin

From be- + gay.

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APA

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MLA

“begay.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/begay. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “begay,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/begay.

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