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Meaning of begay | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To make cheerful or merry.

transitive

Examples

“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: [...]”
“When in the oration ther is nothing rightly and properly spoken, but all is to muche befigured and begayed.”
“I find it the finest land & folk yet, finer even than Denmark & the Danes, though truly not so begaying & behopefulling.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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