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 Begtash’i.Béguins. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Begue d’entendement.
 
This is a really happy phrase for one whose wits are gone wool-gathering; he is a man of “stammering understanding.”   1
 


 Begtash’i.Béguins. 

 
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