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Beggar

Beggar Meaning & Definition
Beggar Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Beggar?

[n] a pauper who lives by begging
[v] reduce to beggary
[v] be beyond the resources of; "This beggars description!"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Beggar: mendicant | pauperise | pauperize

Related Terms | Find terms related to Beggar: almsman | almswoman | Arab | asker | baffle | bankrupt | beach bum | beachcomber | beggarly fellow | blighter | bloke | bo | Bowery bum | budmash | bum | bummer | cadger | caitiff | casual | challenge | chap | charity case | coupon clippers | deadbeat | defy | derelict | devil | dogie | down-and-out | down-and-outer | drifter | drone | drunkard | fellow | freeloader | gamin | gamine | good-for-naught | good-for-nothing | guttersnipe | guy | hardcase | hobo | homeless waif | human wreck | idle rich | idler | impoverish | indigent | landloper | lazzarone | leisure class | loafer | losel | lounge lizard | lowlife | lumpen proletariat | man | mauvais sujet | mean wretch | mendicant | mendicant friar | mendicant order | moocher | mucker | mudlark | no-good | nonworker | panhandler | parasite | pauper | pauperize | pauvre diable | penniless man | person | petitioner | piker | pilgarlic | poor creature | poor devil | poor man | poorling | prayer | ragamuffin | ragman | ragpicker | reduce | rentiers | rounder | sad case | sad sack | schnorrer | scrounger | ski bum | skid-row bum | spiv | sponge | sponger | starveling | stiff | stray | street Arab | street urchin | suitor | sundowner | suppliant | supplicant | supplicator | surf bum | swagman | swagsman | tatterdemalion | tennis bum | the unemployable | the unemployed | tramp | truant | turnpiker | urchin | vag | vagabond | vagrant | vaurien | waif | waifs and strays | want | wastrel | welfare client | worthless fellow | wretch

See Also | beggarman | beggarwoman | cadger | defy | impoverish | Lazarus | moocher | panhandler | pauper | poor man | refuse | resist | scrounger

Beggar In Webster's Dictionary

\Beg"gar\, n. [OE. beggere, fr. beg.] 1. One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner. 2. One who makes it his business to ask alms. 3. One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use. 4. One who assumes in argument what he does not prove. --Abp. Tillotson.
\Beg"gar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beggared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beggaring}.] 1. To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself. --Milton. 2. To cause to seem very poor and inadequate. It beggared all description. --Shak.

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