What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Beg vs Beeg - What's the difference?

beg | beeg |

As a verb beg

is to request the help of someone, often in the form of money.

As a noun beg

is a provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey.

As an adjective beeg is

eye dialect of lang=en.

beg

English

(wikipedia beg)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), assimilation from (etyl) *.

Verb

(begg)
  • to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
    • He begged on the street corner from passers-by.
  • to plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat
    • I beg your pardon. I didn't mean to cause offence.
    He begged her to go to the prom with him .
  • * Shakespeare
    • I do beg your good will in this case.
  • * Bible, Matthew xxvii. 58
    • [Joseph] begged the body of Jesus.
  • * 1898 , , (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'
  • to assume, in the phrase (beg the question)
  • (proscribed) to raise a question, in the phrase (beg the question)
  • (legal, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
  • * Harrington
    • Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.
    Usage notes
    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See
    Antonyms
    * (raise a question)
    Derived terms
    * beg the question * go begging * beg to differ

    See also

    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey

    • Etymology 3

    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. }}