Obs. Also besognie, bessogne. [a. Fr. bisogne, ‘bisongne, a filthie knaue, or clowne; a raskall, bisonian, base humoured scoundrell’ (Cotgr.), ad. It. bisogno, cf. BESONIO.] a. A raw recruit. b. A low worthless fellow; = BEZONIAN.
1615. Chapman, Odyss., Ep. Ded. 50. Against this host, and this invincible commander, shall we have every besogne and fool a leader?
1633. T. Stafford, Pac. Hib., xi. (1821), 352. There were but a few Besognies amongst them.
1658. Brome, Covent Gard., V. iii. Beat the Bessognes that lie hid in the Carriages.
