Beggar

/ˈbɛɡɚ/ · noun

Meaning

A person who begs..

Definitions by Sense

1. A person who begs.
2. A person suffering from extreme poverty.
3. (colloquial, sometimes endearing) A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel.
4. (UK) A minced oath for bugger.
5. (card games) the last placer in Tycoon
6. (transitive) To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
7. (transitive, figurative) To exhaust the resources of; to outdo or go beyond.

Example Sentences

“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.

Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a beggar.

I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!

What does that silly beggar think he's doing?

The beggar seems to have known his business. All fine specimens of the best period.

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.

`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.

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Word Forms

• beggars
• begger
• beggaring
• beggared

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