Belays vs Begays - What's the difference?
belays | begays |
(begay)
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 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.begays
English
Verb
(head)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.