begay

See also: Begay

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ gay.

Verb

begay (third-person singular simple present begays, present participle begaying, simple past and past participle 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.

   • 1985, Percy Grainger, Kay Dreyfus, The farthest north of humanness:

     I find it the finest land & folk yet, finer even than Denmark & the Danes, though truly not so begaying & behopefulling.

Anagrams

• gabey

Maranao

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀay, compare Tagalog bigay and Malay beri.

Noun

begay

1. gift

Verb

begay

1. to give