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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.
1972, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain:‘I see now. And you have a béguin for her too? It is no use, I warn you.’
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French
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Etymology 1
Inherited 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)
- Synonyms: bégard, béguard
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Noun
béguin m (plural béguins)
- a type of headwear once popular with Beguines, similar to a bonnet
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.
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