English Explanatory Dictionary

vaguen

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To make (something) vague or more vague; to blur, to obscure.
  2. To become (more) vague; to blur.

Pronunciation

/ˈveɪɡən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-vaguen.wav

Word forms

vaguen vaguens vaguening vaguened

Etymology

From vague + -en (suffix forming transitive verbs from adjectives, meaning ‘to make [adjective]’), coined by Irish writer Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), apparently first in a manuscript note to himself on an initial typescript of his play Happy Days (1961).

Derived words

vaguened vaguening
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