Readers who get a kick out of unfashionable affixes may also enjoy my list of obsolete be- words, e.g. BEBUTTER: cover with butter (1611) BEDINNER: give a dinner to (1837) BEMISSIONARY: pester with missionaries (1884) BEPAW: befoul as with paws (1684) stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/b...#langsky

Bewondered by obsolete be- words

The prefix be- has a wide range of meanings and applications. It can be added, forming transitive verbs, to nouns (befriend), adjectives (belittle), and other verbs (bespeak) and it can help turn noun...