Meaning of BEGGAR
| Pronunciation: | | 'begur
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- [n] a pauper who lives by begging
- [v] reduce to beggary
- [v] be beyond the resources of; "This beggars description!"
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| | Synonyms: | | mendicant, pauperise, pauperize |
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| | See Also: | | beggarman, beggarwoman, cadger, defy, impoverish, Lazarus, moocher, panhandler, pauper, poor man, refuse, resist, scrounger | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Beg"gar\, n. [OE. beggere, fr. beg.]
1. One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with
humility; a petitioner.
2. One who makes it his business to ask alms.
3. One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a
contemptuous or sarcastic use.
4. One who assumes in argument what he does not prove. --Abp.
Tillotson.
\Beg"gar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beggared}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Beggaring}.]
1. To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared
himself. --Milton.
2. To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
It beggared all description. --Shak.
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| | Definition: | | Dreaming of or dream that you are a beggar, represents your sense of insecurity and lack of self-worth. You feel that you are undeserving. |
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| | Related Terms: | | almsman, almswoman, Arab, asker, baffle, bankrupt, beach bum, beachcomber, beggarly fellow, blighter, bloke, bo, Bowery bum, budmash, bum, bummer, cadger, caitiff, casual, challenge, chap, charity case, coupon clippers, deadbeat, defy, derelict, devil, dogie, down-and-out, down-and-outer, drifter, drone, drunkard, fellow, freeloader, gamin, gamine, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, guttersnipe, guy, hardcase, hobo, homeless waif, human wreck, idle rich, idler, impoverish, indigent, landloper, lazzarone, leisure class, loafer, losel, lounge lizard, lowlife, lumpen proletariat, man, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, mendicant, mendicant friar, mendicant order, moocher, mucker, mudlark, no-good, nonworker, panhandler, parasite, pauper, pauperize, pauvre diable, penniless man, person, petitioner, piker, pilgarlic, poor creature, poor devil, poor man, poorling, prayer, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, reduce, rentiers, rounder, sad case, sad sack, schnorrer, scrounger, ski bum, skid-row bum, spiv, sponge, sponger, starveling, stiff, stray, street Arab, street urchin, suitor, sundowner, suppliant, supplicant, supplicator, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, the unemployable, the unemployed, tramp, truant, turnpiker, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vaurien, waif, waifs and strays, want, wastrel, welfare client, worthless fellow, wretch |
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