beguess

English

Etymology

From be- (“about”) +‎ guess.

Verb

beguess (third-person singular simple present beguesses, present participle beguessing, simple past and past participle beguessed)

  1. (transitive) To guess about; speculate; conjecture.
    • 1915, George Martin Nathaniel Parker, Footprints from the City to the Farm:
      An ocular demonstration of their advantages over the old beguess and begosh system would stimulate us old farmers and quicken our disposition to pattern after them.
    • 1956, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, Housing amendments of 1956:
      No official agency was ready to do that yet, so we in our own staff had to "beguess and beguile" on this information, put it down in order to get our preliminary advance and get started.
    • 2012, pauldotp - Your beauty's light, pauldotp.livejournal.com/1280.html:
      I in unrest and shameful darkness am trapped, And when you let it shine I am beguessed: How many times has Earth its axis lapped? But even darkness I with pleasure meet, Since darkness by your judgement is as neat.
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