beggar
nounEtymology
From Middle English beggere, beggare, beggar (“beggar”), from Middle English beggen (“to beg”), equivalent to beg + -ar. Alternative etymology derives Middle English beggere, beggare, beggar from Old French begart, originally a member of the Beghards, a lay brotherhood of mendicants in the Low Countries, from Middle Dutch beggaert (“mendicant”), with pejorative suffix (see -ard); the order is said to be named after the priest Lambert le Bègue of Liège (French for “Lambert the Stammerer”).
Definitions
A person who begs.
- Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a beggar.
A person suffering from extreme poverty.
- I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!
A mean or wretched person
A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel.
- What does that silly beggar think he's doing?
- The beggar seems to have known his business. All fine specimens of the best period.
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A minced oath for bugger.
- Moreover, the pathing tool, which always has the potential to be a fussy little beggar, is especially uncooperative in career mode where there is a lot of bespoke geometry.
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To make a beggar of someone
To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
To exhaust the resources of
To exhaust the resources of; to outdo or go beyond.
- `Now,' answered Ayesha, with proud humility - `now when my lord doth speak thus royally and give with so free a hand, it cannot become me to lag behind in words, and be beggared of my generosity.'
- It was a scene of such beauty it caught all his attention. Some things beggar likeness, he thought.
- Taking the ontological temperature of today and of the pre-revolutionary 18th century, Mr. Kundera finds that the speed we love has beggared us of pleasure.
The neighborhood
- synonymalmsman
- synonymalmswoman
- synonymbeggar
- synonymcadger
- synonymcaird
- synonymclochard
- synonymLazarus
- synonymmendicant
- synonymmumper
- synonympanhandler
- synonymschnorrer
- synonymspanger
- neighborset a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the Devil
- neighborvagabond
- neighborpauper
- neighborscrounger
- neighborperson
- neighborAbraham man
- neighborautem mort
- neighborBedlam beggar
- neighborcyberbeggar
- neighborGod's minstrel
- neighborpalliard
- neighborPoor Tom
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA