Beg vs Sue - What's the difference?
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to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
to plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Matthew xxvii. 58
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
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
To follow.
* , Bk.XIII, Ch.iv:
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , III.iv:
(label) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
(label) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
To clean (the beak, etc.).
To leave high and dry on shore.
To court.
Beg is a related term of sue.
As a noun beg
is .As a verb sue is
.beg
English
(wikipedia beg)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), assimilation from (etyl) *.Verb
(begg)- He begged on the street corner from passers-by.
- I beg your pardon. I didn't mean to cause offence.
- He begged her to go to the prom with him .
- I do beg your good will in this case.
- [Joseph] begged the body of Jesus.
- 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'
- Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeAntonyms
* (raise a question)Derived terms
* beg the question * go begging * beg to differSee also
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m).Etymology 3
sue
English
Verb
- And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
- though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd , / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.