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mendigo

mendigo noun: a beggar.

Noun

mendigo (plural mendigos)

  1. A beggar.
    • Sitting complacently upon a broken, fallen column, we beheld an object that filled us with horror—an Indian mendigo, a representation in one, of the ancient Aztec, the pobre Mexicano, and the gentleman of the nineteenth century.1887, Fanny Chambers Gooch Iglehart, “chapter IX”, in Face to Face with the Mexicans

Forms of mendigo

pluralmendigos

Origin of mendigo

Borrowed from Spanish mendigo.

Questions about mendigo

What does mendigo mean?
Mendigo means a beggar.
What part of speech is mendigo?
Mendigo is a noun.
What is the plural of mendigo?
The plural of mendigo is mendigos.

Words near mendigo in the dictionary

  1. Mendicinos
  2. mendicities
  3. mendicity
  4. Mendieta
  5. Mendietas
  6. mendigo
  7. mendigos
  8. mendin'
  9. mending
  10. mending fences
  11. mending one's ways

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