béguin

/beˈɡiːn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

"Then he said: 'But what does Ata say to it?' 'It appears that she has a beguin for you,' I said. 'She's willing if you are. Shall I call her?'"
"‘I see now. And you have a béguin for her too? It is no use, I warn you.’"

Colloquial French béguin (“bonnet”). The verb embéguiner (“to wear a bonnet”) came to mean ‘to have a crush on someone’. The word itself came from beguine (lay nuns who typically wore such bonnets).

béguins (plural)

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How do you pronounce béguin?

The recorded pronunciation is /beˈɡiːn/.

What does béguin mean?

An infatuation or fancy.

Where does béguin come from?

It is traced to French.

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