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Synonyms for beggar

Grammar : Noun
Spell : beg-er
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɛg ər

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Définition of beggar

Origin :
  • c.1200, from Old French begart, originally a member of the Beghards, lay brothers of mendicants in the Low Countries, from Middle Dutch beggaert "mendicant," of uncertain origin, with pejorative suffix (see -ard). Cf. Beguine. Early folk etymology connected the English word with bag. Form with -ar attested from 14c., but begger was more usual 15c.-17c. The feminine form beggestere is attested as a surname from c.1300. Beggar's velvet was an old name for "dust bunnies." "Beggers should be no choosers" is in Heywood (1562).
  • noun person asking for charity
  • noun person in financial trouble
Example sentences :
  • In reply he offers me, as if I were a beggar, employment for my sons.
  • Extract from : « The Raid From Beausejour; And How The Carter Boys Lifted The Mortgage » by Charles G. D. Roberts
  • I can only attribute it to the love interest associated with the beggar.
  • Extract from : « Yorkshire Painted And Described » by Gordon Home
  • And is not the whole land like a beggar on horseback riding post to the Davil?
  • Extract from : « Old News » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Though I thank you heartily all the same; it would be a shame at my age to be a beggar.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Must a man be a beggar because he is run over, or because he is half blind?
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • By degrees, most of the food on the table was in the beggar's bag.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
  • And now we will see what befell Robin Hood in his venture as beggar.
  • Extract from : « The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood » by Howard Pyle
  • "Why, mayhap there is some other cold fare therein," said the Beggar slyly.
  • Extract from : « The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood » by Howard Pyle
  • "Friend, thou hast said enough," said the Beggar, getting down from the stile.
  • Extract from : « The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood » by Howard Pyle
  • That I flatly refused to do, for it would have made a beggar of me.
  • Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore
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