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Begat

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible nonstandard

    "To put food on the table, Ruth gleaned in the fields and one of the fields belonged to Boaz who noticed her and admired her. They married and Ruth bore a son, Obed. There ensues a begat-ridden genealogy and...."

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past of beget form-of, past

    "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:"

  2. 2
    To beget. nonstandard

    "I'm just a dyke who wants a kid/What could be weird about that/You don't have to be straight to begat"

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