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bene

noun
/biːn/

Etymology

From Middle English bene, from Old English bēn (“prayer, request, petition, favour, compulsory service”), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“supplication”). Cognate with Danish bøn (“prayer”), Swedish bön (“prayer”), Icelandic bæn (“prayer”), Icelandic bón (“request”). Related to ban. See also boon, bee.

  1. inherited from *bōniz✻
  2. inherited from bēn
  3. inherited from bene

Definitions

  1. A prayer, especially to God

    A prayer, especially to God; a petition; a boon.

    • What is good for a bootless bene?

  2. Alternative form of benne (“sesame”).

  3. Good.

    • Egad, you carry a bene blink aloft. Come to the ken alone—no! my blowen; did not I tell you I should bring a pater cove, to chop up the whiners for Dawson?
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Tongue.

      • Stowe your bene!

    2. Abbreviation of eggs Benedict, an egg dish

    3. Misspelling of been.

      • That would of^([sic]) bene a good idea...

    4. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bene. 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