Synonyms for fakirs
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fuh-keer, fey-ker |
| Phonetic Transcription : fəˈkɪər, ˈfeɪ kər |
Définition of fakirs
Origin :- c.1600, from Arabic faqir "a poor man," from faqura "he was poor." Term for Muslim holy man who lived by begging, misapplied in 19c. English (possibly under influence of faker) to Hindu ascetics. Arabic plural form fuqara may have led to variant early English forms such as fuckiere (1630s).
- As in yogi : noun ascetic
- Only the fakirs in either profession get anything out of it, nowadays.
- Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic
- Perhaps no professional man in China earns as much as these fakirs.
- Extract from : « Where Half The World Is Waking Up » by Clarence Poe
- Oh, they are a lovely lot—full of piety and as dirty as Indian fakirs.
- Extract from : « The Call Of The South » by Louis Becke
- It is on this sincere passion that fakirs have so long traded.
- Extract from : « Civics and Health » by William H. Allen
- They're all the same, whether they're bishops, or bonzes, or Indian fakirs.
- Extract from : « The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. » by W. M. Thackeray
- Demagogues and fakirs will take advantage of it for personal gain.
- Extract from : « The Country-Life Movement in the United States » by L.H. Bailey
- And I didn't know how seriously the frauds and fakirs who play it take it and themselves.
- Extract from : « The Deluge » by David Graham Phillips
- Everywhere were fakirs sitting on the ground, receiving the reverence of the people.
- Extract from : « From Egypt to Japan » by Henry M. Field
- Solemn professors and gay “fakirs” exhibited them from tavern to tavern.
- Extract from : « Stage-coach and Tavern Days » by Alice Morse Earle
- From the viewpoint of the showmen there are "fakers" and "fakirs."
- Extract from : « Sawdust & Spangles » by W. C. Coup
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