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beggar🔊

A person who begs.

A person suffering from extreme poverty.

(affectionate) A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel.

(UK) (A minced oath for bugger.)

To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.

(figurative) To exhaust the resources of; to outdo or go beyond.

💬 Quotations
`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.'
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