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beg
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /b??/
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle English beggen, assimilation from Old English *becgan, *bedcan, *bedican, syncopated variants of bedecian (“to beg”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *bedagô (“petitioner; requestor; beggar”), from *bed?, *bed? (“prayer; request”). Related to North Frisian b?dagi (“to pray”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (bidagwa, “beggar”), Old English biddan (“to ask”). More at bid, bead. See Norwegian Bokmål be (“beg, ask”).
Verb
beg (third-person singular simple present begs, present participle begging, simple past and past participle begged)
- (intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
- (transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
- Synonym: supplicate
- [Joseph] begged the body of Jesus.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 5
- But that same day came Sam Tewkesbury to the Why Not? about nightfall, and begged a glass of rum, being, as he said, 'all of a shake' [...]
- (transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
- (transitive, proscribed) In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
- Antonym: set aside
- (transitive, law, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
- a. 1612, John Harington, Epigrams
- Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.
- a. 1612, John Harington, Epigrams
Usage notes
This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Derived terms
- beg the question
- beg to differ
- go begging
- soft begging
Translations
Noun
beg (plural begs)
- The act of begging; an imploring request.
See also
- beggar
Etymology 2
From Ottoman Turkish ??? (beg).
Noun
beg (plural begs)
- A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey.
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
beg
- (knitting) Abbreviation of beginning.
- 2005, DRG Dynamic Resource, House of White Birches, Big Book of Knit Hats & Scarves for Everyone (page 34)
- Knit with MC until work measures 3 inches from beg.
- 2005, DRG Dynamic Resource, House of White Birches, Big Book of Knit Hats & Scarves for Everyone (page 34)
Further reading
- beg on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- GBE, GEB, Gbe, Geb, bge
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ??? (beg).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?x/
- Hyphenation: beg
Noun
beg m (plural begs)
- (historical) Alternative form of bei.
Malay
Etymology
Borrowed from English bag.
Noun
beg (Jawi spelling ???)
- bag
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish bec, from Proto-Celtic *bikkos (“small”).
Adjective
beg (plural beggey, comparative loo, superlative sloo)
- small
Mutation
References
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bec”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ??? (“ruler”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bê?/
Noun
b?g m (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- (regional) master, lord
Declension
Derived terms
- bekstvo
- bežanje
- prebeg
References
- “beg” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
Slovene
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *b?g?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bé?k/
Noun
b??g m inan
- run
- getaway
- escape
- withdrawal
- (phrase) flight
Inflection
Etymology 2
From Turkish bey.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bé?k/
Noun
b??g m anim
- bey (Turkish governor)
Inflection
Further reading
- “beg”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from English beg.
Noun
beg (nominative plural begs)
- request, an action of begging
Declension
Zhuang
Etymology
From Chinese ? (MC b?æk?).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /pe?k?/
- Tone numbers: beg8
- Hyphenation: beg
Adjective
beg (Sawndip form ?, old orthography beg)
- (bound) white
Adverb
beg (Sawndip form ?, old orthography beg)
- in vain; for nothing
- for free; free of charge
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scrunt
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sk??nt/
Etymology 1
- Onomatopoetic
Noun
scrunt (plural scrunts)
- An abrupt, high-pitched sound.
- 1894, Robert Barr, "Held Up," McClure's Magazine, 1893-1894 Dec-May, p. 309:
- Just as they were in the roughest part of the mountains, there was a wild shriek of the whistle, a sudden scrunt of the air-brakes, and the train, with an abruptness that was just short of an accident, stopped.
- 1901, David S. Meldrum, "The Conquest of Charlotte," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, v.171, 1902 Jan-Jun, pg. 128:
- But Jess would not budge, and all of a sudden I sees a white flash in the dark, and hears a rattle of harness, and a scrunt in the shafts as Jess shook her head clear of the blow.
- 2004, George Douglas Brown, The House with the Green Shutters, Kessinger Publishing, ?ISBN, pg. 243:
- They rose, and the scrunt of Janet's chair on the floor, when she pushed it behind her, sent a thrilling shiver through her body, so tense was her mood.
- 1894, Robert Barr, "Held Up," McClure's Magazine, 1893-1894 Dec-May, p. 309:
Etymology 2
Noun
scrunt (plural scrunts)
- A beggar or destitute person.
- 1938, James Bridie, The Last Trump, publ. Constable, pg. 29:
- It's a fine, ennobling thing, is poverty. It would make me a brutal scrunt, and you a whinging harridan in three years.
- 1987, David Rabe, Hurlyburly: A Play, publ. Samuel French, Inc., ?ISBN, pg. 112:
- And without my work what am I but an unemployed scrunt on the meat market of the streets?
- 2005, Ronan O'Donnell, The Doll Tower, ?ISBN, pg. 20:
- Not slum-dweller socialist but high-class fanny socialist. [...] Socialism that drinks wine - a single bottle costs a year's pay to a fuckin scrunt like Uxbridge.
- 1938, James Bridie, The Last Trump, publ. Constable, pg. 29:
Verb
scrunt (third-person singular simple present scrunts, present participle scrunting, simple past and past participle scrunted)
- To beg or scrounge.
- 1976, Alister Hughes, "Love Carefully," The Virgin Islands Daily News, Feb 2, 1976:
- On the other hand in countries where people scrunt to live, the birth rate is high.
- 1979, Maurice Bishop, Selected Speeches, 1979-1981, Casa de las Américas, pg. 11:
- Four out of every five women are forced to stay at home or scrunt for a meagre existence.
- 1996, Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in the 90s, publ. P. Lang, 1999, ?ISBN, pg. 69:
- As a woman of color living in the north of Metropole, anything that I did dig up I really had to scrunt for.
- 1976, Alister Hughes, "Love Carefully," The Virgin Islands Daily News, Feb 2, 1976:
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