fakir
noun/fəˈkiɹ/
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic فَقِير (faqīr, “poor man”).
- borrowed from فَقِير<t:poor man>
Definitions
A religious mendicant who owns no personal property.
An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic.
- The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or…
Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature.
- He denounces no one until he has all the damaging facts in hand, very frequently backed up with affidavits. He 'Lawsonized' certain stock jobbers and financial fakirs of London before the Boston advertising man was heard of.
- He was, as the undercover agent concluded, a fabulous raconteur or, as one other person summed him up, "a monumental fakir and liar."
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Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for fakir. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA