Poor+person
41poor fish — noun a person who is not very bright The economy, stupid! • Syn: ↑stupid, ↑stupid person, ↑stupe, ↑dullard, ↑dolt, ↑pudding head, ↑pudden head, ↑pillock …
42poor white — Usually Disparaging and Offensive. a white person, esp. of the southern U.S., having low social status and little or no money, property, or education. [1810 20, Amer.] * * * …
43poor figure — pitiful person …
44poor white — /pɔ ˈwaɪt/ (say paw wuyt) noun US a white person living in harsh socio economic conditions …
45poor debtors' acts — Statutes whereunder a person arrested under body execution may obtain his discharge from custody by showing inability to satisfy the judgment …
46poor man's oath — An oath taken by a person arrested under a body execution, whereby he may be discharged. 30 Am J2d Exec § 875. An affidavit, made by a plaintiff who, having a just cause of action against the defendant, is, by reason of his poverty, unable to… …
47indigent person — One destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence. Juneau County v Wood County, 109 Wis 330, 333, 85 NW 387. A poor person. A pauper. Risner v State, 55 Ohio App 151, 9 NE2d 151; Lynchburg v Slaughter, 75 Va 57, 62. A person who has… …
48dirt-poor — also dirt poor ADJ A dirt poor person or place is extremely poor. ...a young boy growing up in dirt poor Louisiana …
49unfortunate person — noun a person who suffers misfortune • Syn: ↑unfortunate • Derivationally related forms: ↑unfortunate (for: ↑unfortunate) • Hypernyms: ↑person, ↑individual …
50English Poor Laws — Poor Law redirects here. For the Poor Law systems of Scotland and Ireland, see Scottish Poor Laws and Irish Poor Laws. Although many deterrent workhouses developed in the period after the New Poor Law, some had already been built under the… …
