1 a person who lives by asking people for money or food:
beggars sleeping on the pavement
2 (BrE, spoken) used with an adjective to describe sb in a particular way:
Aren't you dressed yet, you lazy beggar? * She's in Bali, the lucky beggar.
IDIOMS
beggars can't be choosers (saying) people say beggars can't be choosers when there is no choice and sb must be satisfied with what is available
verb [VN] to make sb/sth very poor:
Why should I beggar myself for you?
IDIOMS
beggar belief / description to be too extreme, shocking, etc. to believe/describe:
It beggars belief how things could have got this bad.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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Is beggar a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, beggar is tagged as noun.
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