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beggar
English
Alternative forms
- begger (obsolete)
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b???/
- Rhymes: -???(?)
Noun
beggar (plural beggars)
- A person who begs.
- 1983, Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image, St. Augustine’s Press, p. 62:
- Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a beggar.
- 1983, Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image, St. Augustine’s Press, p. 62:
- A person suffering from extreme poverty.
- (colloquial, sometimes endearing) A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel.
- What does that silly beggar think he's doing?
- (Britain) A minced oath for bugger.
Synonyms
- (who begs): mendicant, panhandler, schnorrer, spanger, truant, see also Thesaurus:beggar
- (extremely poor person): palliard, pauper, vagabond, see also Thesaurus:pauper
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
beggar (third-person singular simple present beggars, present participle beggaring, simple past and past participle beggared)
- (transitive) To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
- (transitive) To exhaust the resources of; to outdo.
Synonyms
- ruin
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- bagger
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mendicity
English
Etymology
From Old French mendicité, from Latin mendicitas.
Noun
mendicity (countable and uncountable, plural mendicities)
- the state of being a beggar; mendicancy or beggary
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:poverty
mendicity From the web:
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