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begigged

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begigged (not comparable)

  1. (chiefly Southern US, colloquial, dated) Infatuated, crazy.
    • 1914, Amélie Rives, World's-End, page 334:
      "They go about tricking out their [] phantasies in sorts of Montezuma cloaks of painted feathers, and presto ! one fine day they wake to find themselves begigged over a squaw or a Lapland wench."
    • 1950, Eleanor Mercein Kelly, Richard Walden's Wife, page 206:
      "She's as begigged about you as any of them."