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English

Wikipedia has an article on: Bean (disambiguation)

Etymology

From Middle English bene, from Old English bēan (“bean, pea, legume”), from Proto-Germanic *baunō, of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

Noun

Wikipedia has an article on: Bean

Wikipedia

Beans.

bean (plural beans)

  1. The large edible seed of plants of several genera of Fabaceae.
  2. The seed pod of plants of several genera of Fabaceae.
  3. A bean-like seed of some other plants, especially coffee; coffee in the general.
  4. (slang) The head or brain.
    • 1960 P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI and XV:
      I saw her quiver and kept a wary eye on the ginger ale bottle. But even if she had raised it and brought it down on [my] bean, I couldn't have been more stunned than I was by the words that left her lips. [...] Well, as I say, it was from his fertile bean that the idea sprang.
  5. (UK, slang, archaic) A guinea coin.
  6. (UK, slang, usually in the negative) Money.
    I haven't got a bean.

Derived terms

Terms derived from bean
  • bean-stick
  • bean-straw
  • bean thread noodles, bean threads
  • bean tostada
  • Beantown, Bean Town
  • bean tree, bean-tree
  • bean trefoil, bean-trefoil
  • bean-vine
  • bean wagon
  • bean weevil
  • bean-wood
  • beany
  • Bengal bean, Benghal bean
  • black bean
  • blackbean
  • black-eyed bean
  • black turtle bean
  • blue beans
  • bog bean
  • bogbean
  • borlotti bean
  • broad bean, broadbean
  • buck bean, buck-bean, buckbean
  • bullets and beans
  • bush bean, bush-bean
  • butter bean, butterbean
  • cacao bean
  • Calabar bean
  • calico bean
  • cannellini bean
  • carob bean
  • castor bean, castor-bean
  • castor-oil bean
  • ceci bean
  • chili beans
  • China bean
  • Chinese long bean
  • civet bean
  • cluster bean
  • cocoa bean
  • coffee bean
  • common bean
  • cool beans
  • coral bean
  • corona bean
  • cow bean
  • cowboy beans
  • cranberry bean
  • dragon tongue bean
  • djenkol bean
  • Dutch case-knife bean
  • dwarf bean
  • edible bean
  • Egyptian bean
  • English bean
  • English runner bean
  • Entity Bean
  • European bean
  • faba bean
  • fava bean
  • field bean
  • flageolet bean
  • flick the bean
  • Florida bean
  • Florida velvet bean
  • French bean, french bean
  • French filet bean
  • for beans
  • fresh bean
  • full of beans
  • garbanzo bean
  • gemsbuck beans
  • get beans
  • poison bean
  • pole bean, pole-bean
  • pork and bean
  • pork and beans
  • potato bean, potato-bean
  • prairie-bean
  • Price's potato-bean
  • Pythagorean bean
  • Queensland bean
  • red bean
  • red bean paste
  • refried beans
  • rice and beans
  • rice bean
  • Romano bean
  • runner bean
  • sacred bean
  • sand bean
  • scarlet-bean
  • scarlet runner bean
  • screw bean, screw-bean, screwbean
  • sea bean
  • seabean
  • sea green bean
  • Session Bean
  • shell bean
  • sieva bean
  • smoking bean
  • snail bean
  • snap bean
  • snuffbox bean
  • soja bean, soya bean, soy bean, soybean
  • soup beans
  • Spanish bean
  • speckled butter bean
  • spill the beans
  • St Ignatius' bean, St Ignatius's bean
  • stinking bean trefoil
  • string bean
  • stringless bean
  • sugar bean
  • sword bean
  • tepary bean
  • tick bean, tickbean
  • tonca bean, tonga bean, tonka bean, tonqua bean, tonquin bean
  • turtle bean
  • urd bean
  • vanilla bean
  • velvet bean
  • Walkman Bean
  • wax bean, waxbean
  • wax-pod bean
  • Welsh bean
  • white bean
  • wild bean
  • Windsor bean
  • winged bean
  • wolf bean
  • wonder bean
  • yam bean
  • Yankee bean
  • yard-long bean, yardlong bean
  • yellow bean

Verb

to bean (third-person singular simple present beans, present participle beaning, simple past and past participle beaned)

  1. (chiefly baseball) To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in the head.
    The pitcher beaned the batter, rather than letting him hit another home run.
    • 1960 P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IX and XI:
      Though I shall have to exercise an iron self-restraint to keep me from beaning that pie-faced little hornswoggler Mrs Bertram Wooster, nee Wickham, with the shaker. [...] dudgeon might easily lead her to reach for the ginger ale bottle and bean me with it.

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ben < Proto-Celtic *benā < Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn.

Pronunciation

Noun

bean f.

  1. woman
  2. wife

Declension

Irregular
Bare forms
Case Singular Plural
Nominative bean mná
Vocative a bhean a mhná
Genitive mná ban
Dative bean mná
Forms with the definite article
Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bhean na mná
Genitive na mná na mban
Dative leis an mbean

don bhean

 leis na mná
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bean bhean mbean
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old English

Etymology

From Germanic *baunō. Cognate with Old Frisian bām, Old Saxon bōna (Dutch boon), Old High German bōna (German Bohne), Old Norse baun (Danish bønne).

Pronunciation

Noun

bēan f. (plural bēana or bēane)

  1. bean (specifically the broad bean)

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ben < Proto-Celtic *benā < Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn.

Pronunciation

Noun

bean f.

  1. woman, wife

Irregular noun; forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative a' bhean na mnathan
Vocative a bhean a mhnathain
Genitive na mnà na mnathan
Dative leis a mhnaoi leis na mnathan

 

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