| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Being wretched, impoverished or poor.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being chapped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being bereft. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being destitute, needy or poverty-stricken. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being cussed or jinxed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being manned.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb | 1. Of Beggar.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb beggar.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (beggar) | 1. Be beyond the resources of; "This beggars description!".[Wordnet]. 2. Reduce to beggary.[Wordnet]. 3. To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself.[Websters]. 4. To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: beggaring, beggared, beggars, beggarer, beggarers, beggaringly and beggaredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "BEGGARED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1609. (references) |
Specialty Definition: BEGGARED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Reduced to extreme poverty.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of beggar. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: beggar
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Beggar lice | 1: Any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| 2: Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Blind Beggar | The Blind Beggar is a pub located at 337 Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel, London. (references) | ||
| The Beggar Student | The Beggar Student (Der Bettelstudent) is an operetta in three acts by Karl Millöcker to a German libretto by Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée, based on Les Noces de Fernande by Victorien Sardou and The Lady of Lyons by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It was first performed at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, 1882. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: beggar
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Beggar maker | Slang in 1811 | BEGGAR MAKER. A publican, or ale-house keeper. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green | Literature | (The ). A public-house sign in the Whitechapel Road. (Hotten History of Sign-Boards.) (See Beggar. ). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Bully beggar | Slang in 1811 | 1: BULL BEGGAR, or BULLY BEGGAR. An imaginary being with which children are threatened by servants and nurses, like raw head and bloody bones. 2: BUSS BEGGAR. An old superannuated fumbler, whom none but beggars will suffer to kiss them. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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