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Belays vs Begays - What's the difference?

belays | begays |

As verbs the difference between belays and begays

is that belays is third-person singular of belay while begays is third-person singular of begay.

As a noun belays

is plural of belay.

belays

English

Noun

(head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (belay)
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    begays

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (begay)

  • begay

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make gay.
  • *1925 , Louise Jordan Miln, The soul of China: glimpsed in tales of today and yesterday :
  • 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: [...]
  • *2007 , Robert H. F. Carver, Search ResultsThe Protean ass :
  • When in the oration ther is nothing rightly and properly spoken, but all is to muche befigured and begayed .
  • *1985 , Percy Grainger, Kay Dreyfus, The farthest north of humanness :
  • I find it the finest land & folk yet, finer even than Denmark & the Danes, though truly not so begaying & behopefulling.