One who asks alms, especially habitually; one who lives by so doing.
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| 释义 | the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar (112) beggara1250 One who asks alms, especially habitually; one who lives by so doing. bidder1362 One who asks or begs; bidders and beggars is frequent in P. Plowman, referring to those who made a trade of begging. Obsolete. mendinantc1395 = mendicant, n. 1a. mendivaunt1395 = mendicant, n. 1a. Also (occasionally) as adj.: = mendicant, n. 1. craver1406 One who asks or begs (favours, gifts, etc.); an importunate or urgent asker; a beggar. thigger1424 One who thigs; a beggar, a cadger; an exactor of contributions; one who plants himself on others for assistance; ‘one who draws on others for… gangrela1450 Chiefly English regional (northern) and Scottish. A wandering beggar; a vagrant; a wanderer, a walker; a pedlar. mendicant1474 A beggar; a person who lives by begging. Also figurative. mendiant1483 = mendicant, n. eremite1495 A (? quasi-religious) mendicant, a vagabond (see hermit, n.). Lazarus?a1513 A leper; a beggar. (In the first quot. the allusion may be to the Lazarus who was raised from the dead: see John xi.) truandals1523 plural. Beggars; camp-followers. bellyterc1540 A beggar. clapperdudgeon1567 A cant name for a beggar born; also used as a term of reproach or insult (cf. beggar, n. 6a). beggar-man1608 maunder1609 A beggar. maunderer1611 A professional beggar. Abraham cove1612 a (professional) beggar of ragged and dishevelled appearance, esp. one who feigns insanity (cf. Abraham man, n.). eleemosynary1643 One who lives upon alms; a beggar. Also figurative. mumpera1652 A beggar, a mendicant; a person who sponges on others. jockey1685 A strolling minstrel or beggar; a vagabond. Scottish. Obsolete exc. Historical. progger1685 British regional and Irish English. A person who solicits for something, esp. habitually; a beggar. Now rare. asker1708 A person who asks to be given something, as a favour, gift, permission, etc.; a suppliant; spec. (now archaic) a person who asks for alms, a beggar. thigster1710 in same sense. prog1828 North American. = progger, n.1 Obsolete. shooler1830 one who ‘shools’. cadger1851 One who goes about begging or getting his living by questionable means. panhandler1893 U.S. (originally slang). A beggar. Weary Willie1896 see tired Tim at tired, adj.1 1c. schlepper1901 Originally in Jewish usage. A pauper, a beggar; an idler. More generally: a person of little worth, a fool, a loser, a jerk. plinger1904 A beggar. peg-legger1915 A person who has an artificial leg, esp. a wooden one. Also (slang): a beggar. tapper1930 One who ‘touches’ another for money; a beggar. Cf. tap, v.1 3. slang. clochard1940 In France, a beggar, vagrant. Subcategories:— company or class of (5) — female (12) — child (5) — who goes nearly naked (3) — who pretends to be a sailor (2) — who pretends disability (3) — who begs for some hospital or spittle-house (1) — who has stolen begging licence (2) — who pretends to be a farmer (1) — king of beggars (1) — sturdy beggar (5) — non-migrant beggar (1) — licensed beggar (10) — Muslim or Hindu (religious) (8) — one taking part in traditional begging (1) — begging-letter writer (3) — Bedlam beggar (3) — other types of beggar (9) — begging impostor (3) |
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