begone

English

Etymology 1

Univerbation of be +‎ gone. Compare English beware.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biːˈɡɒn/, /bɪˈɡɒn/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒn

Interjection

begone

1. (archaic) Expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 157, column 1:

     Fairies be gone, and be alwaies away.

   • 1856, Herman Melville, The Lightning Rod Man:

     "Begone! move quickly! if quickly you can, you that shine forth into sight in moist times like the worm."

Derived terms

• bego (verb)

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈɡɒn/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒn

Verb

begone

1. past participle of bego

Derived terms

• woe-begone, woebegone

Translations

expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away

• Azerbaijani: bas bayıra, rədd ol
• Finnish: kaikkoa
• French: ouste (fr)
• Hungarian: tűnj el, tűnj a szemem elől
• Italian: vattene
• Japanese: 去ね (ine)
• Russian: уходи́ (uxodí) (sg.), уходи́те (uxodíte) (pl. or formal), прочь (ru) (pročʹ), вон (ru) (von)
• Scottish Gaelic: falbh, bi air d' fhalbh, thoir ort
• Swedish: försvinn (sv)

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• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} махай се (mahaj se)

Anagrams

• engobe