begayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

begay (三人称単数 現在形 begays, 現在分詞 begaying, 過去形および過去分詞形 begayed)

1. (transitive) To make cheerful or merry.
   • 1925, Louise Jordan Miln, The soul of China: glimpsed in tales of today and yesterday:

     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: [...]

   • 2007, Robert H. F. Carver, Search ResultsThe Protean ass:

     When in the oration ther is nothing rightly and properly spoken, but all is to muche befigured and begayed.