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111mendicant — adj 1. begging, scrounging, cadging, supplicant, petitionary, on bended knee, on one s hands and knees. n 2. beggar, almsman, beggarman, alms hunter, cadger, Inf. panhandler, Scot. gaberlunzie, Brit. mumper; moocher, scrounger, Inf. sponger, Inf …
112migrant — adj 1. roving, wandering, migrating, migratory. See migratory(defs.1, 2). n 2. migrator, journeyer, wanderer, traveler, wayfarer, viator, trekker; passerby, peregrinator, bird of passage, landloper; globetrotter, world traveler. 3. migrant or… …
113pauper — n poor person, have not, beggar, down and outer; insolvent, bankrupt, debtor; cadger, Inf. panhandler, mendicant, beadsman, almsman, Scot. gaber lunzie; ragamuffin, tatterdemalion, hobo, Sl. bindle stiff; tramp, vagrant, bum; moocher, Inf.… …
114ragamuffin — n 1. tatterdemalion, scarecrow; beggar, panhandler, guttersnipe; hobo, tramp, vagrant, beachcomber, vagabond, derelict; Inf. bum, Sl. vag, Sl. bo, Sl. stiff, Sl. bindle stiff, Sl. canvasback. 2. orphan, waif, street Arab, gutter urchin, gamin,… …
115trash — n 1. rubbish, riffraff, Brit. Dial. raff, litter, sweepings, chaff; refuse, Dial. culch, garbage, waste, offal; debris, detritus, rubble, wreckage; remains, leavings, leftovers, scraps, orts, hogwash, swill; remainder, residue, residuum; scoria,… …
116waif — n stray, homeless animal or person, street Arab, gutter urchin, ragamuffin, mudlark, poor little lamb, little lost lamb, gamin, parentless child, orphan, Western U.S. dogie; foundling, abandoned infant, castaway, outcast, pariah, Chiefly Brit.… …
117wretch — n 1. unfortunate, miserable or poor being or creature, poor devil, pilgarlic, sad case, Sl. sad sack, Chiefly Brit. Sl. poor bugger; victim, sufferer, prey, shorn lamb, martyr, scapegoat; outcast, misfit, pariah; ragamuffin, Sl. raggy,… …
118rapscallion — rap•scal•lion [[t]ræpˈskæl yən[/t]] n. a rascal; rogue • Etymology: 1690–1700; earlier rascallion, obscurely derived from rascal; cf. tatterdemalion …
119ragamuffin — /ˈrægəmʌfən / (say raguhmufuhn) noun 1. a ragged, disreputable person; a tatterdemalion. 2. a ragged child. {Middle English ragamoffyn, name of a demon in Langland s poem Piers Plowman} …
120ragamuffin — [n] person who is poor, tattered beggar, bum*, gamin, guttersnipe*, hobo, loafer, orphan, scarecrow, street person, tatterdemalion*, tramp, urchin, vagabond, vagrant, waif, wastrel; concepts 412,423 Ant. sophisticate …
