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beggarsome

beggarsome adjective: characteristic or typical of a beggar.

Adjective

beggarsome (comparative more beggarsome, superlative most beggarsome)

  1. Characteristic or typical of a beggar
    • It's only one of those fleericums which, at the instirgation of that beggarsome, proud thing, and your enemy as well as mine,—Miss, as they call her—Miss Delby-faugh! [...]1839, Simon Gray, Hugh Blair, The Spaniard
    • How," says I, "could the beggarsome planet be filled, If the coves that do nothing were taken and killed? "1876, Greenwood's Farewell and Other Poems

Forms of beggarsome

comparativemore beggarsome
superlativemost beggarsome

Origin of beggarsome

From beggar + -some.

Questions about beggarsome

What does beggarsome mean?
Beggarsome means characteristic or typical of a beggar.
What part of speech is beggarsome?
Beggarsome is an adjective.

Words near beggarsome in the dictionary

  1. beggars belief
  2. beggars can't be choosers
  3. beggars description
  4. beggars the question
  5. beggars' velvet
  6. beggarsome
  7. beggartick
  8. beggarticks
  9. beggarware
  10. beggarweed
  11. beggarweeds

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