béguin

noun

bé·​guin

bā-gaⁿ

plural -s

: infatuation

the girl has a béguin for you

—W. S. Maugham

Word History

Etymology

French, literally, hood of a beguine (influenced in meaning by s' embéguiner to become infatuated, from béguin hood), from Middle French, from béguine

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