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Besay vs Begay - What's the difference?

besay | begay |

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

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besay

English

Verb

  • To say about (someone or something); get something across verbally or by saying; relay; signify; declare.
  • *1925 , Albert Payson Terhune, Najib :
    • "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.
  • *2003 , Philip Auslander, Performance: Media and technology :
    • The 'besaid' are articulate with words and with silence.
  • *2005 , Lara Elf Princess Prendville, Screams BeNeath Pandora :
    • "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)
  • 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.