Beg

Definition: Beg

Beg

Verb

1. Call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!".

2. Make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently.

3. Ask to obtain free, as of money.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "beg" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Beg \Beg\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Begged; Begging.]. (references)

Satire

Computing

Bible

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

BEG

BEG

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Beg

Atonement

Apologize, beg pardon, fair l'amende honorable, give satisfaction; come down on one's knees, fall down on one's knees, down on one's marrow bones.

Forgiveness

Beg pardon, ask pardon, implore pardon; Noun: conciliate, propitiate, placate; make up a quarrel; (pacify); let the wound heal.

Master

Regent, viceroy, exarch, palatine, khedive, hospodar, beglerbeg, three-tailed bashaw, pasha, bashaw, bey, beg, dey, scherif, tetrarch, satrap, mandarin, subahdar, nabob, maharajah; burgrave; laird; (proprietor); collector, commissioner, deputy commissioner, woon.

Penitence

Verb: repent, be sorry for; be penitent; Adjective: rue; regret; think better of; recant; knock under; (submit); plead guilty; sing miserere, sing de profundis; cry peccavi; own oneself in the wrong; acknowledge, confess; (disclose); humble oneself; beg pardon; (apologize); turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from sin; reclaim; repent in sackcloth and ashes; (do penance); learn by experience.

Permission

Ask permission, beg permission, request permission, ask leave, beg leave, request leave.

Pity

Ask for mercy; Verb: supplicate; (request); cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel; deprecate.

Poverty

Verb: be poor; Adjective: want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth, have seen better days, go down in the world, come upon the parish; go to the dogs, go to wrack and ruin; not have a penny; (money), not have a shot in one's locker; beg one's bread; tirer le diable par la queue; run into debt; (debt).

Reasoning,

Beg the question, reason in a circle, reason in circles, assume the conclusion.

Refusal

Phrase: non possumus; your humble servant; bien oblige; not on your life; no way; not even if you beg on your knees.

Request

Verb: request, ask; beg, crave, sue, pray, solicit, invite, pop the question, make bold to ask; beg leave, beg a boon; apply to, call to, put to; call upon, call for; make a request, address a request, prefer a request, put up a request, make a prayer, address a prayer, prefer a prayer, put up a prayer, make a petition, address a petition, prefer a petition, put up a petition; make application, make a requisition; ask trouble, ask one for; claim; (demand); offer up prayers; (worship); whistle for.

Beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore; conjure, adjure; obtest; cry to, kneel to, appeal to; invoke, evoke; impetrate, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for; cry aloud, cry for help; fall on one's knees; throw oneself at the feet of; come down on one's marrowbones.

Beg from door to door, send the hat round, go a begging; mendicate, mump, cadge, beg one's bread.

Crosswords: Beg

Manx (dwarf, few, model, narrow, poky, quiet, short, slight, small), Pidgin English (to plead), Serbo-Croatian (bey).

Beg my wife's forgiveness, before I blow (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben)

I beg your pardon (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

You're gonna talk, pal. You're gonna beg to talk (The Untouchables; writing credit: Oscar Fraley; Eliot Ness)

Better to beg forgiveness than ask permission (The Hunchback of Notre Dame; writing credit: Victor Hugo; Irene Mecchi)

Oh, I beg your pardon (Suspicion; writing credit: Anthony Berkeley; Samson Raphaelson)

I beg of you (Lay All Your Love On Me; performing artist: Abba)

I won't beg you to stay (Don't Turn Around; performing artist: Ace Of Base)

I can act like a star, I can beg on my knees (Barbie Girl; performing artist: Aqua)

And beg you to please see me (Until You Come Back To Me; performing artist: Aretha Franklin)

And if I ever lose my legs, I won't moan, and I won't beg, (Moonshadow; performing artist: Cat Stevens)

Beg (1970)

Borrow or Steal Beg (1937)

Beg Borrow & Deal (2002)

Make the Bitches Beg 2 (2001)

Beg ot smerti (1996)

Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg (performing artist: TLC)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Arf! Beg! Catch!: Dogs from A to Z (reference)

• Beg the Question (A Minimum Wage Collection) (reference)

• Christmas Through the Years: A War Cry Collection: Selected from the Official National Publication of the Salvation Army in the USA from Issues Beg (reference)

• How to Get Customers to Call, Buy and Beg for More: 'You Will More Than Double Your Business in Less Than One Year (reference)

• How to Satisfy a Man Every Time...and Have Him Beg for More! (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Beg, Borrow and Steal (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg (reference)

• And Then You'll Beg (reference)

• Beg to Differ (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The ragged tramp began to beg in most piteous terms. Credit: Library of Congress.

I've got an idea for '96- I go back, I beg forgiveness, play the whole redemption bit, the reformed underdog back from Hell, I get re-elected, we take over... / / Oliphant. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hollow folk who beg along Skyline Drive, Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I beg to thank SIMPLE SUSAN for some kind words of sympathy, to the same effect as those received from OLD CAT.

Oh! I would beg his pardon

He saw her approach him in a lull of the talk and beg him to sing one of his curious songs

And if thy poor devoted servant may But beg one favour at thy gracious hand, Thou dost confirm his happiness for ever

Then the hungry men crowded the alleys behind the stores to beg for bread, to beg for rotting vegetables, to steal when they could

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Children

Central African Republic

Many children beg and steal. (references)

Indonesia

Nevertheless, many citizens with disabilities citizens beg for a living. (references)

Azerbaijan

Poverty at times compels families to send their children to beg on the streets. (references)

Human Rights

Ukraine

Unlike in the previous year, there were no reports that enior officers required malnourished recruits to beg for food or money, or employed them in unsanctioned labor activities. (references)

Dominican Republic

Inmates surveyed said that the food provided was unacceptable, and most chose to eat whatever they could beg for or purchase from persons in the vicinity of the prison or from family members. (references)

Worker Rights

Yemen

Even in urban areas, children work in stores and workshops, sell goods on the streets, and beg. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "beg": beg a favor of smb. ♦ beg a favour of smb. ♦ beg for ♦ beg for mercy ♦ beg for smth. ♦ beg leave ♦ beg leave to ♦ beg of smb. ♦ beg off ♦ beg off the afternoon ♦ beg one's bread ♦ beg pardon of ♦ beg permission ♦ beg smb. off ♦ beg smb.'s forgiveness for smth. ♦ beg smb.'s pardon ♦ beg the question ♦ beg your pardon ♦ beg your pardon! ♦ beg your pardon? ♦ i beg of you not to do that ♦ i beg of you to do that ♦ I beg to ♦ i beg to be excused ♦ i beg to be excused! ♦ i beg to differ ♦ i beg to say ♦ i beg you to forgive me ♦ i beg you to take me with you ♦ i beg your pardon! ♦ i beg your pardon? ♦ not even if you beg on your knees ♦ sit up and beg ♦ To beg one for a fool ♦ To beg the question ♦ we beg to inform you that. Additional references.

Ending with "beg": sit-up-and-beg, so-lo-head-beg.

Containing "beg": sit-up-and-beg-bike.

Afrikaans

vra (ask, ask for, bid, request). (various references)

Albanian

lutem (appeal, be at one's devotions, entreat, implore, petition, plead, please, pray, short circuit, solicit, supplicate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏توسل (beseech, entreat, entreaty, implore, invoke, petition, petition for smth., solicit, solicitation, sue, supplicate, supplication), ‏تضرع (beseech, entreat, entreaty, invocation, plead, pleading, pray, prayer, supplicate, supplication), ‏سأل (ask, call, call on, enquire, inquire, question, quiz, request, shout, speak), ‏إفترض جدلا (grant), ‏إلتمس (ask, beseech, canvass, crave, cry, implore, petition, plead, request, solicit, sue, woo), ‏إستعطى (panhandle), ‏إعتذر (apologise, apologize, eat one's words, excuse). (various references)

Bulgarian 

умолявам (adjure, beseech, conjure, entreat, implore, invoke, obtest, plead, pray, supplicate), моля (adjure, ask, implore, invoke, please, pray, request, solicit, supplicate), прося (beseech, cadge, crave, solicit), помолвам (ask, entreat), изпросвам (scrounge, sue out, wangle). (various references)

Chinese 

乞求 . (various references)

Croatian

molim (please, to beg), molila. (various references)

Czech

vyžebrat si (bum), prosit (ask, beseech, implore, obtest, petition, plead, pray, solicit), panáèkovat, dovolovati, žebrat (scrounge). (various references)

Danish

bede (ask, ask for, beet, bid, pray, request). (various references)

Dutch

schooien, bedelen. (various references)

Esperanto

peti (ask, ask for, bid, request), almozpeti. (various references)

Faeroese

biðja um (ask, ask for, bid, book, order, request), biðja (ask, ask for, bid, pray, request), bøna (bean, beseech). (various references)

Farsi 

گداءی کردن , خواستن (Ask, Bone, Call, Choose, Desire, Intend, Solicit, Want, Will, Wish), استدعاکردن (Beseech, Entreat, Supplicate), درخواست کردن (Apply, Bone, Petition, Plead, Pray, Request, Solicit, Supplicate). (various references)

Finnish

pyytää (ask, ask for, bid, catch, entreat, request, urgently request). (various references)

French

mendier, solliciter (beseech), prier, implorer (beseech), demander. (various references)

Frisian

biddelje, fersykje (ask, ask for, bid, request). (various references)

German

bitten (appeal, ask, ask for, ask request, beseech, bid, invite, petition, petitions, plead, pleading, prithee, request, solicit, solicitation, Sue, to ask request, to please, to request), betteln (cadge). (various references)

Greek 

ικετεύω (beg for, beseech, entreat, implore, petition, plead, pray, supplicate), παρακαλώ (ask, beseech, by all means, go ahead, implore, petition, plead, please, pray, request, solicit, urge, you are welcome), ζητιανεύω (cadge), επαιτώ (cadge, mump, panhandle, prog). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקבץ � �"בות (collect alms, panhandle), לפשוט י�", לפצור (entreat, implore, plead, urge), לעתור (entreat, petition, plead, pray, supplicate), ל�"תח� ן (appeal, ask for mercy, beseech, entreat, implore, pray, supplicate), ל�"פציר (beseech, entreat, implore, insist, plead, press, solicit, urge), לבקש (ask, demand, desire, request, seek, supplicate). (various references)

Hungarian

koldul (cadge, out on the scran, pan-handle, to beg, to bum, to panhandle, to ponce), könyörög (beseech, deprecate, entreat, implore, pray, supplicate, to appeal, to beg, to conjure sy's help, to entreat, to implore, to supplicate), kér (adjure, ask, ask for it, beseech, demand, implore, petition, plead, pray, to apply to sy for sg, to ask for quarter, to conjure, to cry quarter, to demand, to desire, to entreat, to implore, to request, to require, to solicit, to supplicate). (various references)

Icelandic

biðja um (ask, ask for, bid, request), biðja (ask, ask for, bid, request). (various references)

Indonesian

mengemis (befriend beg, cadge), meminta (befriend beg, bid). (various references)

Irish

impigh (ask, ask for, bid, request). (various references)

Italian

mendicare (cadge), chiedere (ask, ask for, bid, charge, demand, desire, enquire, inquire, move, plead, request, require, seek, to ask, to ask for, wonder). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

願う (to, to beg, to desire, to hope, to request, to wish). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たのむ (to ask, to beg, to request), おがむ (to beg, to make a supplication, to worship), おがみたおす (to beg, to entreat repeatedly, to implore, to persuade someone to consent), ねがう (to beg, to desire, to hope, to implore, to request, to wish), �"め�"なさい (excuse me, I beg your pardon). (various references)

Korean 

구걸하십시�". (various references)

Manx

shirrey jeirk (begging, cadge, panhandle), jeirkal, caayney (bray, chant, drawl, whine). (various references)

Papiamen

suplicá (ask, ask for, bid, request), roga (beseech). (various references)

Pig Latin

egbay.(various references)

Polish

błagać (beseech), prosić (ask, ask for, bid, request). (various references)

Portuguese

tomar a liberdade de (presume, venture), suplicar (beseech, crave, entreat, implore, invoke, obtest, pray, supplicate), solicitar (appeal, apply, court, file, invite, petition, plea, plead, pray, request, seek, solicit, woo), rogar (ask, ask for, bid, entreat, file, implore, obtest, petition, request, solicit), requerer (apply, claim, exact, file, need, petition, put in for, request, require, solicit), pedir (ask, ask for, beseech, bid, cry for, demand, file, implore, order, petition, request, require, reserve, scrounge, seek, to ask), mendigar (cadge, mump), implore, implorar (beseech, conjure, crave, deprecate, file, implore, invoke, petition, pray, supplicate). (various references)

Romanian

cere (apply for, ask, ask for, bid, cadge, call for, challenge, charge, claim, command, court, demand, desire, exact, expect, have, implore, involve, necessitate, petition, request, require, require smth. of smb., Sue, urge). (various references)

Russian 

просить (ask, asked, beseech, crave, plead, pleaded, pled, pray, supplicate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prositi, preklinjati (adjure, beseech, conjure, entreat, implore, pray, supplicate). (various references)

Spanish

mendigar (panhandle), pedir limosna (mump). (various references)

Sranan

begi (ask, ask for, bid, pray, prayer, request). (various references)

Swedish

tigga (cadge, grub, mooch, panhandle), bettla, bedja (ask, ask for, beseech, bid, entreat, invite, plead, pray, request, supplicate). (various references)

Tagalog

kahilíngan (ask, ask for, bid, request), hilíng (ask, ask for, bid, request). (various references)

Thai

หลบหลีก (dodge, elude), ขอทาน (mooch (er)), ขอร้อง (ask, hustle, obsecrate, request, summon), ขอความกรุ�"า (beseech). (various references)

Turkish

yalvarmak (adjure, appeal, beseech, conjure, crave, desire, entreat, implore, intercede, invoke, plead, pray, sit up and beg, solicit, supplicate), sustaya kalkmak, sakınmak (abstain, avoid, be careful not to, be cautious, be wary of, be wary of doing smth., beware, cradle, eschew, evade, flee from, flinch, forbear, hang back, keep clear of, refrain, shuffle, shun, shy, steer clear of, Stow), rica etmek (adjure, appeal, ask, beseech, bespeak, conjure, desire, entreat, implore, intercede, petition, plead, pray, request, Sue, sue for, supplicate), kaçınmak (abstain, avoid, balk, baulk, beware, chicken out, dodge, elude, eschew, evade, flee, flee from, flinch, forbear, funk, get out of, keep clear of, refrain, refuse, shirk, short circuit, shun, sidestep, spare, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, steer clear of, Stow), itiraf etmek (acknowledge, admit, allow, avouch, avow, avow oneself, come clean, confess, own, own up, profess, recognize, stand in a white sheet, unbosom, unburden), dilenmek (ask for alms, bum, cant, mump, panhandle), dilemek (beseech, call down, desire, plead, solicit, will, wish), dílenmek, arka ayakları üzerinde durmak. (various references)

Turkmen 

цzelenmek (plead, pray). (various references)

Ukrainian

жебрачити (cadge), благати (adjure, appeal, beseech, conjure, crave, cry, deprecate, entreat, implore, intercede, invoke, obsecrate, petition, plead, supplicate), просити (apply, ask, beseech, bid, crave, desire, obsecrate, request, seek), дозволяти собі (presume). (various references)

Welsh

ymbil (beseech, entreat, entreaty, implore, supplication), erfyn (appeal, beseech, expect, implore, pray), deisyf (beseech, desire, entreat, supplicate, wish), crefu (crave, implore), ceinioca (gather pennies), cardota. (various references)

Zulu

-cela (ask, ask for, bid, request). (various references)

adora, adorabant, adorabat, adorabimus, adorabis, adorabit, adorabitis, adorabo, adorabunt, adoramus, adorando, adorandum, adorans, adorant, adorante, adorantes, adorare, adorarem, adorarent, adoraret, adorari, adorassent, adorasset, adorasti, adorat, adorate, adoratis, adorato, adoraturus, adoraverimus, adoraverint, adoraveris, adoraverit, adoraveritis, adoravero, adoraverunt, adoravi, adoravit, adoravitque, adorem, adoremus, adorent, adores, adoret, adoretis, adoretisque, adoro, bosoramus, exorabit, exorare, exoraret, exoratio, exoratione, exoraverunt, exoro, horem, inplorante, inploraverunt, obtestor, ora, orabam, orabant, orabas, orabat, orabis, orabit, orabitis, orabitque, orabo, orabunt, oramus, orando, orandum, orans, orante, orantes, orare, orarent, oraret, oras, orassent, orasset, orat, orate, oratis, oraverimus, oraverint, oraverit, oraverunt, oravi, oravimus, oravit, orem, oremus, orent, orentque, oret, oretis, oretur, orionem, oro, orto, petam, petatis, pete, petebant, petens, petent, petentes, petenti, petentibus, petere, peteremus, peterent, peteret, petet, petetis, petierat, petieratis, petierimus, petierint, petieris, petierit, petieritis, petierunt, petii, petiit, petimus, petimusque, petisses, petisti, petistis, petit, petite, petitis, petitoque, petivi, petivit, petivitque, peto, petunt, precamini, precamur, precamurque, precandum, precans, precantem, precare, precarentur, precari, precatus, precatusque, precor, precorque, quaeso, supplicare, venerant, veneras, venerat, venero. (various references)

bedecian. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "beg": begall, begalled, begalling, begalls, began, begat, begaze, begazed, begazes, begazing, beget, begets, begetter, begetters, begetting, beggar, beggared, beggaries, beggaring, beggarliness, beggarlinesses, beggarly, beggars, beggarweed, beggarweeds, beggary, begged, begging, begin, beginner, beginners, beginning, beginnings, begins, begird, begirded, begirding, begirdle, begirdled, begirdles, begirdling, begirds, begirt, beglad, begladded, begladding, beglads, beglamor, beglamored, beglamoring, beglamors. (additional references)

Words ending with "beg": filibeg, outbeg, philabeg, philibeg. (additional references)

Words containing "beg": filibegs, misbegan, misbegin, misbeginning, misbegins, misbegot, misbegotten, misbegun, outbegged, outbegging, outbegs, philabegs, philibegs, rebegan, rebegin, rebeginning, rebegins, rebegun, wobegone, woebegone, woebegoneness, woebegonenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Beg" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abeg, bacg, Baeg, bagg, bago, bahg, bamg, baug, bawg, bdg, beag, Beb, bec, beeg, bef, bege, begi, begn, bego, begr, begu, begy, beh, bei, bej, belg, bem, beng, beo, bep, beq, beu, bev, bew, Bex, bez, bfe, bfg, bg, bgm, bgp, bhe, bleeg, bleg, bmg, boeg, bogg, bqe, breg, bsg, Bugg, bwg, byg, ebdg, Ebv, Fehg, Fepg, ibdg, ibeg, tbig, veg, Xeg, zeg. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: be.

+1 letter: begs, berg, gibe, gybe.

+2 letters: badge, bagel, barge, befog, began, begat, beget, begin, begot, begum, begun, beige, beigy, being, belga, bergs, bewig, bilge, binge, bogey, bogie, bogle, budge, bugle, bulge, debug, gable, gambe, gibed, giber, gibes, gleba, glebe, globe, grebe, gybed, gybes.

+3 letters: ambage, badged, badger, badges, bagels, bagged, bagger, baggie, bagmen, baguet, banged, banger, bangle, barege, barged, bargee, barges, beagle, beclog, bedbug, bedrug, beflag, befogs, begall, begaze, begets, beggar, begged, begins, begird, begirt, beglad, begone, begrim, begulf, begums, beiges, beings, belgas, belong, beluga, benign, bewigs, bigeye, bigger, biggie, bilged, bilges, binged, binger, binges, biogen, blunge, bodega, bogeys, bogged, boggle, bogies, bogles, bonged, booger, boogey, boogie, borage, bougie, bowleg, bregma, bridge, brogue, budged, budger, budges, budget, budgie, bugeye, bugged, bugger, bugled, bugler, bugles, bulged, bulger, bulges, bunged, bungee, bungle, burgee, burger, burgle, bygone, cubage, debugs, ebbing, gabbed, gabber, gabble, gabies, gabled, gables, gambes, gamble, garbed, garble, gazebo, gerbil, gibbed, gibber, gibbet, gibers, giblet, glebae, glebes, globed, globes, gobbed, gobbet, gobble, gobies, goblet, goboes, goober, graben, grebes, oblige, outbeg, pegbox, redbug, seabag.