English-Thai Dictionary

beggar

N คน ขอทาน  cadger panhandler kon-kor-tan

 

beggar

N คนจน  down-and-out millionaire kon-jon

 

beggar

VT ทำ ให้ยาก จน ลง  ทำให้ เป็น คน ขอทาน  tham-hai-yak-jon-long

 

beggarly

ADJ ไม่เคย พอ  ขี้เหนียว  mai-khei-phor

 

beggary

N ความยากจน 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BEGGAR

n.[See Beg. ] One that lives by asking alms, or makes it his business to beg for charity. 1. One who supplicates with humility; a petitioner; but in this sense rarely used, as the word has become a term of contempt.
2. One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.

 

BEGGAR

v.t.To reduce to beggary; to impoverish. 1. To deprive or make destitute; to exhaust; as, to beggar description.

 

BEGGARED

pp. Reduced to extreme poverty.

 

BEGGARING

ppr. Reducing to indigence or a state of beggary.

 

BEGGARLINESS

n.The state of being beggarly; meanness; extreme poverty.

 

BEGGARLY

a.Mean; poor; in the condition of a beggar; extremely indigent.

 

BEGGARLY

adv. Meanly; indigently; despicable.

 

BEGGAR-MAID

n.A maid that is a beggar.

 

BEGGAR-MAN

n.A man that is a beggar.

 

BEGGAR-WOMAN

n.A female beggar.

 

BEGGARY

n.A state of extreme indigence.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BEGGAR

Beg "gar, n. Etym: [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.

 

BEGGAR

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.

 

BEGGARHOOD

BEGGARHOOD Beg "gar *hood, n.

 

Defn: The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars.

 

BEGGARISM

BEGGARISM Beg "gar *ism, n.

 

Defn: Beggary. [R.]

 

BEGGARLINESS

BEGGARLINESS Beg "gar *li *ness, n.

 

Defn: The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.

 

BEGGARLY

BEGGARLY Beg "gar *ly, a.

 

1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow. " South. "A beggarly fellowship. " Swift. "Beggarly elements. " Gal. iv. 9.

 

2. Produced or occasioned by beggary. [Obs. ] Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation. Jer. Taylor.

 

BEGGARLY

BEGGARLY Beg "gar *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.

 

BEGGAR'S LICE

BEGGAR'S LICE Beg "gar's lice `. (Bot. )

 

Defn: The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum ) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them.

 

BEGGAR'S TICKS

BEGGAR'S TICKS Beg "gar's ticks `.

 

Defn: The bur marigold (Bidens ) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.

 

BEGGARY

Beg "gar *y, n. Etym: [OE. beggerie. See Beggar, n.]

 

1. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.

 

2. Beggarly appearance. [R.] The freedom and the beggary of the old studio. Thackeray.

 

Syn. -- Indigence; want; penury; mendicancy.

 

BEGGARY

BEGGARY Beg "gar *y, a.

 

Defn: Beggarly. [Obs. ] B. Jonson.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

beggar

beg gar |ˈbegər ˈbɛɡər | ▶noun 1 a person, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food. 2 [ with adj. ] informal a person of a specified type, often one to be envied or pitied: poor little beggars. ▶verb [ with obj. ] reduce (someone ) to poverty: by being soft to the unfortunate, we beggared ourselves. PHRASES beggar belief (or description ) be too extraordinary to be believed or described. beggars can't be choosers proverb people with no other options must be content with what is offered. set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the Devil proverb someone unaccustomed to power or luxury will abuse or be corrupted by it. ORIGIN Middle English: from beg + -ar 3 .

 

beggarly

beg gar ly |ˈbegərlē ˈbɛɡərli | ▶adjective poverty-stricken. • pitifully or deplorably meager or bad: the stipend was a beggarly $26 | my beggarly physical condition. DERIVATIVES beg gar li ness noun

 

beggar-my-neighbor

beg gar-my-neigh bor ▶noun a card game for two players in which the object is to acquire one's opponent's cards. Players alternately turn cards up and if an honor is revealed, the other player must find an honor within a specified number of turns or else forfeit the cards already played. ▶adjective [ attrib. ] (also beggar-thy-neighbor ) (esp. of national policy ) self-aggrandizing at the expense of competitors: failure would create a growing risk of trade wars as countries retreated into beggar-thy-neighbor policies.

 

beggar's purse

beg gar's purse ▶noun an appetizer consisting of a crêpe stuffed with a savory filling, typically caviar and crème fraiche.

 

beggarticks

beg gar ticks |ˈbegərtiks ˈbɛɡərtɪks |(also beggar's ticks ) ▶plural noun [ often treated as sing. ] a plant of the daisy family with inconspicuous yellow flowers and small barbed fruit that cling to passing animals. Several kinds are widespread weeds. Also called bur marigold. [Genus Bidens, family Compositae: several species, in particular B. frondosa. ] ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: apparently from the resemblance of the seedpods to ticks.

 

beggary

beg gar y |ˈbegərē ˈbɛɡəri | ▶noun a state of extreme poverty.

 

Oxford Dictionary

beggar

beg ¦gar |ˈbɛgə | ▶noun 1 a person, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food. 2 [ with adj. ] informal a person of a specified type, especially one to be envied or pitied: poor little beggars. ▶verb [ with obj. ] reduce (someone ) to poverty: why should I beggar myself for you? PHRASES beggar belief (or description ) be too extraordinary to be believed or described. beggars can't be choosers proverb people with no other options must be content with what is offered. set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the Devil proverb someone unaccustomed to power or luxury will abuse or be corrupted by it. ORIGIN Middle English: from beg + -ar 3 .

 

beggarly

beg |gar ¦ly |ˈbɛgəli | ▶adjective 1 pitifully or deplorably meagre or bad: the stipend in 1522 was a beggarly 26 shillings. 2 poverty-stricken; very poor. DERIVATIVES beggarliness noun

 

beggar-my-neighbour

beggar-my-neighbour ▶noun [ mass noun ] a card game for two players in which the object is to acquire one's opponent's cards. Players alternately turn cards up and if an honour is revealed, the other player must find an honour within a specified number of turns or else forfeit the cards already played. ▶adjective [ attrib. ] (especially of national policy ) self-aggrandizing at the expense of competitors.

 

beggar's purse

beg ¦gar's purse ▶noun N. Amer. an appetizer consisting of a crêpe stuffed with a savoury filling, typically caviar and crème fraiche.

 

beggarticks

beggar |ticks ▶plural noun [ often treated as sing. ] another term for bur-marigold. ORIGIN mid 19th cent. (also as beggar's ticks ): apparently from the resemblance of the seed pods to ticks.

 

beggary

beg |gary |ˈbɛgəri | ▶noun [ mass noun ] a state of extreme poverty.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

beggar

beggar noun he never turned any beggar from his door: panhandler, mendicant, tramp, vagrant, vagabond, hobo; informal scrounger, sponger, cadger, freeloader, bum, moocher, mooch.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

beggar

beggar noun 1 he never turned any beggar from his kitchen door: tramp, beggarman, beggarwoman, vagrant, vagabond, down-and-out, homeless person, derelict, mendicant; pauper, poor person; N. Amer. hobo; informal scrounger, sponger, cadger, freeloader, bag lady, have-not, crusty; Brit. informal dosser; N. Amer. informal bum, moocher, mooch, schnorrer; Austral. /NZ informal bagman, swagman, bludger; rare clochard. 2 informal he's been on holiday for three weeks, lucky beggar! fellow, thing, individual, soul, character, creature, wretch; person, man, woman, boy, girl; informal guy, fella, devil, bunny, bastard; Brit. informal chap, bloke, bugger, sod, bod; N. Amer. informal dude, hombre; informal, dated body, dog; Brit. informal, dated cove; archaic wight. ▶verb rare the latest crisis beggared nearly half the population: impoverish, make poor, reduce to poverty, reduce to penury, reduce to destitution, bankrupt, make bankrupt, make destitute, ruin, wipe out, break, cripple; bring someone to their knees; rare pauperize.

 

beggarly

beggarly adjective 1 a priest's stipend in 1522 was a beggarly 26s 8d: meagre, modest, slight, lean, scant, scanty, skimpy, puny, inadequate, insufficient, insubstantial, miserly, paltry, pitiful, derisory, niggardly, ungenerous, miserable, contemptible, despicable; informal measly, stingy, lousy, pathetic, piddling, piffling, mingy, poxy; rare exiguous. ANTONYMS considerable. 2 they lived in the most beggarly part of Bethnal Green: wretched, miserable, sordid, squalid, shabby, shoddy, mean, base, vile, foul, despicable, unpleasant; poor, poverty-stricken, impoverished, distressed, beggared, needy, penniless, destitute, indigent, impecunious, penurious; informal hard up, on one's uppers.

 

beggary

beggary noun there is no unemployment pay to stand between them and beggary: poverty, penury, destitution, ruin, ruination, indigence, impecuniousness, impoverishment, need, neediness, privation, want, hardship, distress, difficulties, dire straits, reduced circumstances, straitened circumstances, mendicancy, vagrancy; bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, debt, indebtedness, financial ruin; Brit. administration, receivership; Economics primary poverty; rare pauperdom, pauperism, mendicity.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

beggar

beg gar /béɡə r /→beg 名詞 複 ～s /-z /C 1 乞食 （こじき ）, 物もらい ; 貧乏人 ▸ Beggars can't be choosers .｟ことわざ ｠物もらいに選り好みは禁物 2 ｟主に英 くだけて ｠〖しばしばlittle ～〗やつ (fellow )▸ poor [lucky ] little beggars かわいそうな [運のいい ]やつら .3 (物 金銭を )請い求める人 .動詞 他動詞 ｟かたく ｠〈人 〉を貧乏にする ; …を無力にする, 不可能にする ▸ beggar belief 信じられない

 

beggarly

b é g gar ly 形容詞 ｟かたく ｠極貧の ; ごく少量の .

 

beggar-my-neighbour

b è ggar-my-n é ighbour 名詞 U 〘トランプ 〙すかんぴん 〘相手の札を全部取れば勝つゲーム 〙.形容詞 近隣窮乏的な .

 

beggary

beg gar y /béɡ (ə )ri /名詞 U 極貧 .