Besay vs Begay - What's the difference?
besay | begay |
To say about (someone or something); get something across verbally or by saying; relay; signify; declare.
*1925 , Albert Payson Terhune, Najib :
*2003 , Philip Auslander, Performance: Media and technology :
*2005 , Lara Elf Princess Prendville, Screams BeNeath Pandora :
To make gay.
*1925 , Louise Jordan Miln, The soul of China: glimpsed in tales of today and yesterday :
*2007 , Robert H. F. Carver, Search ResultsThe Protean ass :
*1985 , Percy Grainger, Kay Dreyfus, The farthest north of humanness :
As a verb besay
is to say about (someone or something); get something across verbally or by saying; relay; signify; declare.As a proper noun begay is
.besay
English
Verb
- "Laughter," reproved Najib, cut to the soul by his chief's ridicule, "laughter is for hyenas — and for women! as I have besaid of often.
- The 'besaid' are articulate with words and with silence.
- "How did this Elf child come to be here, Luna?", Methusem besaid . "I granted their ship permission to berth in the bay," Luna projected this with apology.
begay
English
Verb
(en verb)- 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: [...]
- When in the oration ther is nothing rightly and properly spoken, but all is to muche befigured and begayed .
- I find it the finest land & folk yet, finer even than Denmark & the Danes, though truly not so begaying & behopefulling.