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"BEGGARS" is a plural of: beggar. |
Date "BEGGARS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Beggars King of the Beggars. Bampfylde Moore Carew (1693-1770). Beggars should not be choosers. Beggars should take what is given them, and not dictate to the giver what they like best. They must accept and be thankful. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insolence | Phrase: one's bark being worse than his bite; " beggars mounted run their horse to death "; quid times? Caesarem vehis; wagahai wa. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BEGGARS |
| English words defined with "BEGGARS": beggar, Beggarhood, Bluegown ♦ Clack dish, Couple-beggar ♦ Proletariate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BEGGARS": Alexis ♦ BLIND HARPERS, Born in the Purple, BUSS BEGGAR ♦ CANTERS, Canting Crew, CHATTS, CLEYMES, Cripplegate ♦ DOXIES ♦ FERMERDY BEGGARS, FLYING CAMPS ♦ Giles, Gueux ♦ Jarkman, JARKMEN ♦ King of the Beggars, King Pétaud ♦ Mettre de la Paille dans ses Souliers, Mumpers, MUMPERS HALL ♦ PALLIARDS ♦ RATTLING MUMPERS, RENDEZVOUS, Ringworms ♦ STOP HOLE ABBEY, STURDY BEGGARS ♦ THE CANTING CREW. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "BEGGARS": Schnorrer. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh well, beggars can't be choosers (Stuart Little; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) Well they should, those filthy beggars, they go from port to port (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers.) Still hard to believe that you of all people are the chosen one. Well, I suppose beggars can't be choosers (Kingdom Hearts; writing credit: Billy Gallo; Robert Gillings) Don't let me catch you giving none of them muffins to them little beggars outside, ya hear me (Ewoks: The Battle for Endor; writing credit: George Lucas; Jim Wheat) The ghetto: alleyways stinking of piss, beggars in every doorway, straights and students coming to look at the freak show, and all the idiots saving all week, saving their stupid money from their stupid idiot jobs so they can come and shoot their load with some stranger (Queer as Folk 2; writing credit: Russell T. Davies) | |
Lyrics | These are the days of the beggars and the choosers (Praying For Time; performing artist: George Michael) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Beggars in Ermine (1934) The Merry Beggars (1910) Beggars and Choosers (1999) Sea Beggars (1994) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Seventh ward beggars. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them. |
Homer | All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. |
John Ray | If wishes were horses, beggars might ride. |
Octavio Paz | Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. |
Shakespeare | Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The Beggars. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | It beggars any man that keeps it. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Haiti | Disabled beggars are common on the streets of Port-au-Prince and other towns. (references) |
Malawi | A few charitable organizations attempted to reduce the number of child beggars in urban areas and find alternative care for them. (references) | |
Greece | In August 2000, police detained a group of 35 Roma children from Albania, between the ages of 3 months and 11 years, who were begging or being exploited by adult beggars in the streets. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | There continued to be incidents of social cleansing--including attacks and killings--directed against individuals deemed socially undesirable, such as drug addicts, prostitutes, transvestites, homosexuals, beggars, and street children. (references) |
Minorities | Cote d'Ivoire | Some non-Muslims have opposed construction of mosques, such as the new mosque in Abidjan's Plateau district, because the Islamic duty to give alms daily may attract beggars to neighborhoods containing mosques. (references) |
Political Economy | NIGERIA | The use of children as beggars, hawkers, or elsewhere in the informal sector is widespread in urban areas. (references) |
Worker Rights | India | Some such boys end up as beggars in Saudi Arabia during the hajj. (references) |
Nigeria | Children frequently are employed as beggars, hawkers, and bus conductors in urban areas. (references) | |
Madagascar | In urban areas, many children work as petty traders, casual transport workers, and beggars. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BEGGARS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 82.43% of the time. "BEGGARS" is used about 222 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 82.43% | 183 | 22,794 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 10.81% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.76% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Total | 100.00% | 222 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "BEGGARS": beggars can't be choosers ♦ it beggars description. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BEGGARS": child-beggars. | |
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| Language | Translations for "BEGGARS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | darovanému koni na zuby nehleï (beggars can't be choosers). (various references) | |
German | Bettlerin, Bettler (beggar, lazar, mendicant, panhandler). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ajándék lónak ne nézd a fogát (beggars cannot be choosers). (various references) | |
Manx | beechaagh (house for beggars). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eggarsbay.(various references) | |
Spanish | a caballo regalado no le mires el diente (beggars can't be choosers). (various references) | |
Turkish | tarife sığmaz (it beggars description), muhtaç olan seçici olamaz (beggars can't be choosers), misafir umduğunu değil bulduğunu yermiş (beggars can't be choosers), kelimelerle anlatılmaz (it baffles description, it beggars description, unspeakable), kelimeler yetersiz kalır (it baffles description, it beggars description). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"BEGGARS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baggers, Begara, beggard, begger, beggers, Berggasse, Biggers, Bogaers, bogars, boggarts, Boggas, boggers, buggar, Feggans. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BEGGARS" (pronounced be"gerz) |
| 4 | -e" g er z | Eggers, jaegers. |
| 3 | -g er z | Angers, augers, augurs, Cougars, bootleggers, braggers, buggers, burgers, carpetbaggers, catalogers, cheeseburgers, chiggers, daggers, diggers, fingers, forefingers, gangbangers, hamburgers, Jaggers, joggers, leaguers, lingers, loggers, lugers, mongers, muggers, rigors, sandbaggers, sluggers, staggers, sugars, tigers, triggers, vinegars, Youngers. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: baggers. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-g-r-s" | |
-1 letter: aggers, bagger, barges, beggar, eggars, gagers, sagger, seggar. | |
-2 letters: agers, agger, bares, barge, baser, bears, bergs, braes, brags, eggar, gager, gages, garbs, gears, grabs, rages, saber, sabre, sager, sarge. | |
-3 letters: ager, ages, arbs, ares, arse, bags, bare, bars, base, bear, begs, berg, brae, brag, bras, ears, eggs, eras, ergs, gabs, gaes, gage, gags. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-g-r-s" | |
+1 letter: braggers, braggest, burgages, garbages. | |
+2 letters: beggaries, braggiest. | |
+3 letters: absterging, bedraggles, eggbeaters, gangbuster, sandbagger. | |
+4 letters: beggarweeds, brigandages, budgerigars, gangbangers, gangbusters, sandbaggers, staggerbush, tobogganers. | |
+5 letters: beggarliness, gingerbreads. | |
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