26984 words

beggar

4 definitions • 2 examples
1
a poor person who lives by asking others for money or food
2
a person, especially when you are expressing an opinion about something that they have done, or that has happened to them:

Examples:

You've won again, you lucky beggar.
Those children have been running about in my rose garden again, the little beggars (= annoying people)!
3
to make a person or organization, etc. extremely poor
4
a poor person who lives by asking others for money or food

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