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begware

noun

Etymology

From beg + -ware.

  1. derived from begart — “kind of lay brother”
  2. derived from *bedagō✻ — “petitioner, requester, beggar”
  3. derived from *bedu✻
  4. inherited from *bedukōn✻
  5. inherited from beggen
  6. formed as begware — “beg + -ware”

Definitions

  1. nagware

    • Big-name system vendors typically install software on their consumer PCs at the factory. These "extras" go by many names: bundleware, begware, bloatware, and my favorite, crapware.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for begware. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA