beggarnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbeɡ.ər/us/ˈbeɡ.ɚ/a poor person who lives by asking others for money or food
UK informal a person, especially when you are expressing an opinion about something that they have done, or that has happened to them:
You've won again, you lucky beggar.
Those children have been running about in my rose garden again, the little beggars (= annoying people)!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
People in general
- bird
- body
- breed
- bugger
- coot
- creature
- devil
- fellow man/men
- man
- mankind
- number
- party
- peeps
- person
- quarter
- rogue
- sort
- soul
- stiff
- the human race
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Idiom(s)
beggars can't be choosers
beggarverb [ T ]
uk/ˈbeɡ.ər/us/ˈbeɡ.ɚ/literaryto make a person or organization, etc. extremely poor
Idiom(s)
beggar belief/description