béguin

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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)

  1. An infatuation or fancy.

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French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French beguin.

Noun

béguin m (plural béguins, feminine béguine)

  1. (historical) Beghard, Beguin (religious laymen living in semimonastic communities in imitation of the Beguines)
    Synonyms: bégard, béguard
Derived terms

Noun

béguin m (plural béguins)

  1. a type of headwear once popular with Beguines, similar to a bonnet

Etymology 2

From embéguiner.

Noun

béguin m (plural béguins)

  1. (informal) crush, fancy (a short-lived and unrequited love or infatuation)
    J’ai le béguin pour elle.I've got a crush on her.
  2. (informal) crush (person with whom one is infatuated)
    C’est mon béguin.She's my crush.
Descendants
  • English: béguin

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