beggar

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈbɛɡə/    美 /ˈbɛɡɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. 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!
  3. A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel. colloquial,endearing,sometimes
    — What does that silly beggar think he's doing?
  4. A minced oath for bugger. UK
    — 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.
  5. the last placer in Tycoon
动词 v.
  1. To make a beggar of someone; impoverish. transitive
  2. To exhaust the resources of; to outdo or go beyond. figuratively,transitive
    — `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.'

词形变化

beggars plural begger alternative,obsolete beggars present,singular,third-person beggaring participle,present beggared participle,past beggared past begger alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
almsman almswoman beggar cadger caird clochard Lazarus mendicant mumper panhandler schnorrer spanger truant
上位词
person
下位词
Abraham man autem mort Bedlam beggar cyberbeggar God's minstrel palliard Poor Tom Tom of Bedlam Tom of Bedlam's man walleteer
相关词
set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the Devil vagabond pauper scrounger

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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”).
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