begnawn
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begnawn
- (obsolete) past participle of begnaw
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- begnawn with the bots
- 1897, Maine Academy of Medicine and Science, Journal of medicine and science: Volume 4:
- They are as a class, dyspeptics, — begnawn by indigestion, — and they try a new kind of patent medicine every week […]
- 1896, Charles Whitehead, Richard Savage, a romance of real life:
- penitent or fear-begnawn rogues