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verbenomnomnomcourant dans les dialogues

  • Australie//ˈbeɡ//
  • Australie/[ˈbeɡ]/
  • Nouvelle-Zélande//ˈbe̝ɡ//
  • //ˈbɛɡ//
  • /[ˈbɛɡ]/

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

verbe

  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

    obsolèteTo 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.

Étymologie

Inherited from Middle English beggen, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old English *becgian, *bedcian, syncopated forms of bedecian (“to beg”), itself of obscure origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *bedukōn, a frequentative verb derived from Proto-West Germanic *bedu (“plea, petition, prayer”, whence English bead). Alternatively from Proto-West Germanic *bedagō (“petitioner, requester, beggar”), an agent noun from the same source. Compare North Frisian bēdagi (“to pray”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍅𐌰 (bidagwa, “beggar”). All ultimately from the root of English bid, which see for more. An alternative theory considers the verb a backformation from beggar and derives the latter from Old French begart (“kind of lay brother”).

nom

  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

    argotA 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.

nom

  1. 1

    Variante de beyAlternative form of bey.

    Yaqub Beg (c. 1820 – 1877)

Étymologie

From Proto-Turkic *bēg.

nom

  1. 1

    Variante de beginningAbbreviation of beginning.

    Knit with MC until work measures 3 inches from beg.

Formes

pluriel
begs
passé
begged
participe passé
begged
participe présent
begging
3ᵉ personne du singulier
begs
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