béguin
Meanings
noun
- An infatuation or fancy.
Pronunciation
Word forms
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).
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