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Pauper
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
Example Sentences
- To be paid like a pauper would be bad enough but to be treated like dirt at the same time would push almost anyone over the edge.
- Eat healthy and eat like a pauper and you will maintain good health.
- He's only a pauper whom nobody owns.
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Word Origin & History
pauper
1516, "person destitute of property or means of livelihood," from L. pauper "poor," from pre-L. *pavo-pars "getting little," from pau-, root of paucus "little" + parere "get, produce" (see pare). Originally in Eng. a legal word, from L. phrase in forma pauperis (1495) "in the
EXPANDcharacter of a poor person."
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