béguin
See also: beguin
English
Etymology
Colloquial French béguin (“bonnet”). The verb embéguiner (“to wear a bonnet”) came to mean ‘to have a crush on someone’. The word itself came from beguine (lay nuns who typically wore such bonnets).
Pronunciation
Noun
béguin (plural béguins)
- An infatuation or fancy.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 51
- Then he said: 'But what does Ata say to it?' 'It appears that she has a beguin for you,' I said. 'She's willing if you are. Shall I call her?'
- 1972, ‘I see now. And you have a béguin for her too? It is no use, I warn you.’ (O'Brian, Post-Captain)
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 51
Translations
an infatuation or fancy
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French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old French beguin.
Noun
béguin m (plural béguins, feminine béguine)
- (historical) Beghard, Beguin (religious laymen living in semimonastic communities in imitation of the Beguines)
Derived terms
Noun
béguin m (plural béguins)
Etymology 2
From embéguiner.
Noun
béguin m (plural béguins)
- (informal) crush, fancy (a short-lived and unrequited love or infatuation)
- J’ai le béguin pour elle. ― I've got a crush on her.
- (informal) crush (person with whom one is infatuated)
- C’est mon béguin. ― She's my crush.
Descendants
- → English: béguin
Further reading
- béguin on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
- “béguin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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