Beggar
11beggar — 1 noun (C) 1 someone who lives by asking people for food and money: There s been a huge increase in the number of beggars on London s streets. 2 lucky/lazy/cheeky etc beggar BrE spoken used to describe someone who you think is lucky, lazy etc, in …
12beggar — /ˈbɛgə / (say beguh) noun 1. someone who begs alms, or lives by begging. 2. a penniless person. 3. Chiefly British Colloquial a person: a lucky beggar. –verb (t) 4. to reduce to beggary; impoverish. 5. to exhaust the resources of: to beggar… …
13beggar — beg|gar1 [ begər ] noun count someone who is very poor and lives by asking people for money or food beggars can t be choosers INFORMAL used for saying that you have to accept anything that is offered to you, usually because you have no money or… …
14beggar — 1. noun a) A person who begs. Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a beggar. b) A person suffering from extreme poverty. Im to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach! Syn: mendicant …
15beggar — [[t]be̱gə(r)[/t]] beggars, beggaring, beggared 1) N COUNT A beggar is someone who lives by asking people for money or food. Syn: panhandler 2) VERB If something beggars a person, country, or organization, it makes them very poor. [V n] He warned… …
16beggar — n. & v. n. 1 a person who begs, esp. one who lives by begging. 2 a poor person. 3 colloq. a person; a fellow (poor beggar). v.tr. 1 reduce to poverty. 2 outshine. 3 exhaust the resources of (beggar description). Phrases and idioms: beggar my… …
17beggar — beggarhood, n. /beg euhr/, n. 1. a person who begs alms or lives by begging. 2. a penniless person. 3. a wretched fellow; rogue: the surly beggar who collects the rents. 4. a child or youngster (usually prec. by little): a sudden urge to hug the… …
18beggar — vb, n a euphemism for (to) bugger (except in the respectable idioms beggar the imagination or beggar description when the meaning is to render impoverished or surpass) …
19beggar — noun 1》 a person who lives by begging for food or money. 2》 informal a person of a specified type: lucky beggar! verb reduce to poverty. Phrases beggar belief (or description) be too extraordinary to be believed or described …
20beggar — see set a beggar on horseback, and he’ll ride to the devil beggars can’t be choosers sue a beggar and catch a louse if wishes were horses, beggars would ride …
