béguin

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Французский Язык - Английский Язык
{n} infatuation
{n} crush (Informal)
crush on

He had a crush on her. - Il a eu le béguin pour elle.

Do you have a crush on my brother? - As-tu le béguin pour mon frère ?

Английский Язык - Английский Язык
an infatuation or fancy
béguin

    Этимология

    () Colloquial French béguin (“bonnet”). The verb s’embéguiner ‘to wear a bonnet’ came to mean ‘to have a crush on someone’. The word itself came from béguine ‘beguine’ (lay nuns who typically wore such bonnets).
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