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little beggar

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beg⋅gar

  [beg-er]
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–noun
1. a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
2. a penniless person.
3. a wretched fellow; rogue: the surly beggar who collects the rents.
4. a child or youngster (usually prec. by little): a sudden urge to hug the little beggar.
–verb (used with object)
5. to reduce to utter poverty; impoverish: The family had been beggared by the war.
6. to cause one's resources of or ability for (description, comparison, etc.) to seem poor or inadequate: The costume beggars description.
Origin:
1175–1225; ME beggare, beggere. See beg 1 , -er 1 , -ar 3

Related forms:
beg⋅gar⋅hood, noun
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Word Origin & History

beggar 
c.1225, from O.Fr. begart, originally a member of the Beghards, lay brothers of mendicants in the Low Countries, from M.Du. beggaert "mendicant," with pejorative suffix. The order said to take its name from Lambert le Bègue "Lambert the Stammerer," a Liege priest (d.1177). The order quickly drew imposters and fell from repute. The verb meaning "to reduce to poverty" is from 1528.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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