beguin, trachle, and Pi Day

[ersatz_read]

béguin (bay gan'), noun.
1. flirtation.
2. a. infatuation; b. the object of the infatuation

Etymology:  French for "bonnet", and also "crush" (as in s'embéguiner, to "wear a bonnet" for someone)
Seems it's not actually related to "beguile", whose original meaning was closer to "trick" or "deceive".

trachle (trah' Həl)
noun.  1. an exhausting effort,

Comments

[prettygoodword]

One wants to tie béguin to the beguine dance (as in Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine"), but alas they seem to be unrelated words. Tho' I'm sure a beguine can be a béguin.

---L.