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Beag vs Beeg - What's the difference?

beag | beeg |

As a noun beag

is (historical) a ring.

As an adjective beeg is

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beag

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (historical) A ring.
  • * 1878 , Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain), The Numismatic chronicle and journal of the Numismatic Society :
    • It was a mark of nobility among the German races — by some considered the origin of our coronets — and had even about it a quasi-religious character in memory of the "holy beag " (holy ring), the oath upon which was tantamount to the oath upon Thorr's hammer.
  • * 1970 , William A. Chaney, The cult of kingship in Anglo-Saxon England :
    • [...] and the description of that monarch in his anonymous Vita'' as ''coronatus lauro'' probably indicates a beag which was lighter than the formal ''diadema .
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    beeg

    English

    Adjective

  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Booth Tarkington, title=His Own People, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He is beeg' like his ' beeg country. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1914, author=Wells Hastings, title=The Best American Humorous Short Stories, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Because," said Gideon, smiling down at her, "I ain' got no beeg club like she has." }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1998, date=August 28, author=Dan Savage, title=Savage Love, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=More recently, former MTV VJ Simon Rex was discovered to have made a handful of pornos prior to becoming a beeg music television star. }}