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beggar Definition:
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| Beggar (n.) One who begs |
| Beggar (n.) One who makes it his business to ask alms. |
| Beggar (n.) One who is dependent upon others for support |
| Beggar (n.) One who assumes in argument what he does not prove. |
| Beggar (v. t.) To reduce to beggary |
| Beggar (v. t.) To cause to seem very poor and inadequate. |
| Beggar's lice () The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them. |
| Beggar's ticks () The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity. |
| Couple-beggar (n.) One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other. |
| beggar-my-neighbor / beggar-my-neighbour / strip-Jack-naked a card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards |
| beggar-my-neighbor policy / beggar-my-neighbour policy / beggar-my-neighbor strategy / beggar-my-neighbour strategy a policy of promoting oneself at the expense of others, used especially of national policy, "the United States has pursued a beggar-my-neighbor policy" |
| beggar / mendicant a pauper who lives by begging |
| bur marigold / burr marigold / beggar-ticks beggar's-ticks / sticktight any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing |
| Spanish needles beggar-ticks the seed of bur marigolds |
| European beggar-ticks / trifid beggar-ticks / trifid bur marigold / Bidens tripartita bur marigold of temperate Eurasia |
| swampy beggar-ticks / Bidens connata bur marigold of eastern and northern United States and Canada common in wet pastures and meadows |
| tick trefoil / beggar lice beggar's lice any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments |
| beggar's lice / beggar lice Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing |
| beggar / pauperize / pauperise reduce to beggary |
beggar Synonyme:
| beggar Arab Bowery bum almsman almswoman asker baffle bankrupt beach bum beachcomber beggarly fellow blighter bloke bo 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 |
| beggared beggarly bereaved bereft broke deprived destitute disadvantaged flat fleeced fortuneless ghettoized impecunious impoverished in need in rags in want indigent mendicant necessitous needy on relief out at elbows pauperized poverty-stricken starveling stripped underprivileged |
| beggarly abject abominable arrant atrocious backscratching bare-handed base base-minded beggared beneath contempt bereaved bereft bootlicking cheap cheesy common contemptible cowering crawling cringing crouching crummy debased degraded depraved deprived despicable dirty disadvantaged disgusting empty-handed execrable famished fawning flagrant flattering fleeced footlicking foul fulsome gaudy ghettoized gimcracky grave gross groveling half-starved hangdog heinous ignoble ill off ill-equipped ill-furnished ill-provided impoverished in need in rags in want indigent ingratiating little low low-down low-minded lumpen mangy mealymouthed mean measly mendicant meretricious miserable monstrous necessitous needy nefarious obeisant obnoxious obsequious odious on bended knee on relief on short commons out at elbows paltry parasitic pathetic pauperized petty pitiable pitiful poky poor poverty-stricken prostrate rank reptilian rubbishy sad scabby scrubby scruffy scummy scurvy scuzzy shabby shoddy shorthanded small sniveling sorry sponging squalid starved starveling starving stripped sycophantic timeserving toadeating toadying toadyish trashy truckling trumpery two-for-a-cent two-for-a-penny twopenny twopenny-halfpenny underfed undermanned undernourished underprivileged unfed unmentionable unprovided unreplenished unsupplied valueless vile worthless wretched |