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Berays vs Begays - What's the difference?

berays | begays |

As verbs the difference between berays and begays

is that berays is third-person singular of beray while begays is third-person singular of begay.

berays

English

Verb

(head)
  • (beray)

    • beray

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make foul; befoul; soil.
  • * 1652 , ,
    • Also it is said, that if a woman take a needle, and beray it with dung, and then wrap it up in earth, in which the carkass [carcass] of a man was buryed [buried], and shall carry it about her in a cloth which was used at the funerall, that no man shall be able to ly [have sex] with her as long as she hath it about her.

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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.