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
- 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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