beggar
noun
- a person who begs on the street usually for food or money
- a person who used open-source solutions in programming
verb
- To reduce to poverty
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛɡɚ/ / /ˈbɛɡə/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English beggere, beggare, beggar (“beggar”), from Middle English beggen (“to beg”), equivalent to beg + -ar. Alternative etymology derives Middle English beggere, beggare, beggar from Old French begart, originally a member of the Beghards, a lay brotherhood of mendicants in the Low Countries, from Middle Dutch beggaert (“mendicant”), with pejorative suffix (see -ard); the order is said to be named after the priest Lambert le Bègue of Liège (French for “Lambert the Stammerer”).
- A person who begs.
““[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.”
“Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a beggar.”
- A person suffering from extreme poverty.
“I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!”
- A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel.
“What does that silly beggar think he's doing?”
“The beggar seems to have known his business. All fine specimens of the best period.”
- A minced oath for bugger.
“Moreover, the pathing tool, which always has the potential to be a fussy little beggar, is especially uncooperative in career mode where there is a lot of bespoke geometry.”
- the last placer in Tycoon
verb
Etymology: From Middle English beggere, beggare, beggar (“beggar”), from Middle English beggen (“to beg”), equivalent to beg + -ar. Alternative etymology derives Middle English beggere, beggare, beggar from Old French begart, originally a member of the Beghards, a lay brotherhood of mendicants in the Low Countries, from Middle Dutch beggaert (“mendicant”), with pejorative suffix (see -ard); the order is said to be named after the priest Lambert le Bègue of Liège (French for “Lambert the Stammerer”).
- To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
- To exhaust the resources of; to outdo or go beyond.
“`Now,' answered Ayesha, with proud humility - `now when my lord doth speak thus royally and give with so free a hand, it cannot become me to lag behind in words, and be beggared of my generosity.'”
“It was a scene of such beauty it caught all his attention. Some things beggar likeness, he thought.”