"begay" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From be- + gay.",
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1925, Louise Jordan Miln, The soul of China: glimpsed in tales of today and yesterday",
          "text": "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: [...]",
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          "ref": "2007, Robert H. F. Carver, Search ResultsThe Protean ass",
          "text": "When in the oration ther is nothing rightly and properly spoken, but all is to muche befigured and begayed.",
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          "ref": "1985, Percy Grainger, Kay Dreyfus, The farthest north of humanness",
          "text": "I find it the finest land & folk yet, finer even than Denmark & the Danes, though truly not so begaying & behopefulling.",
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        "To make cheerful or merry."
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        "(transitive) To make cheerful or merry."
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  "word": "begay"
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  "etymology_text": "From be- + gay.",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "begaying",
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        "participle",
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          "ref": "1925, Louise Jordan Miln, The soul of China: glimpsed in tales of today and yesterday",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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          "text": "When in the oration ther is nothing rightly and properly spoken, but all is to muche befigured and begayed.",
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        {
          "ref": "1985, Percy Grainger, Kay Dreyfus, The farthest north of humanness",
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        "To make cheerful or merry."
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