beg

Verb

1. 1

   To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.

   He begged on the street corner from passers-by.

2. 2

   To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.

   I beg your pardon. I didn’t mean to cause offence.

   He begged her to go to the prom with him.

   you do beg your good will in this case.

   [Joseph] begged the body of Jesus.

3. 3

   To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.

   The way you keep eating raw meat, you're just begging to get tapeworms.

4. 4

   To obviously lack or be in need of something.

   A captivating novel that just begs for a movie adaptation

   The colors in this cell are as dull as its architects must have been. An endless expanse of drab-green textured walls, contrasting with the gray concrete floor. It begs redecoration.

5. 5

   In the phrase beg the question: to assume.

6. 6

   In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).

7. 7

   veraltetTo ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.

   Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.

Substantiv

1. 1

   The act of begging; an imploring request.

   “Lord,” I prayed, “it's a long time since I came to You for anything besides a quick beg for help. And it seems every time I come to You I'm asking something bigger, more impossible. But I'm here again. […]

2. 2

   SlangA pretentious, attention-seeking, or eccentric person.

   Girls told me about not wanting to be seen by boys as "too much", "too loud", "weird", "annoying", a "pick me", or "a beg" (someone looking for attention). They told me how boys can be loud and funny, but that girls had better not.

Substantiv

1. 1

   Variante von beyAlternative form of bey.

   Yaqub Beg (c. 1820 – 1877)

Substantiv

1. 1

   Variante von beginningAbbreviation of beginning.

   Knit with MC until work measures 3 inches from beg.

Formen

Plural

begs

Präteritum

begged

Partizip II

begged

Partizip I

begging

3. Person Singular

begs