beggar
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Is beggar a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of beggar?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (colloquial, sometimes endearing) A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel.Examples: "What does that silly beggar think he's doing?"colloquialendearingsometimes
2. (UK) A minced oath for bugger.UK
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.transitive
2. (transitive, figurative) To exhaust the resources of; to outdo or go beyond.Examples: "`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."; "Taking the ontological temperature of today and of the pre-revolutionary 18th century, Mr. Kundera finds that the speed we love has beggared us of pleasure."figurativelytransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary