mock-beggarn.

Brit.

/ˈmɒkbɛɡə/, U.S.

/ˈmɑkˌbɛɡər/

Forms: see mock v. and beggar n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mock v., beggar n.

Etymology: < mock v. + beggar n.Also attested in place names, as Mockbeggar (1684, Rutland), Mocbeggar Hall (1690; now Mockbeggar Hall, Cheshire), Mock-beggar (1737, West Yorkshire); see also quot. 1835 at mock adj. 1c.

1. British colloquial. Something which serves to disappoint the hopes of beggars. Chiefly attributive and in the genitive: designating a house that has an appearance of wealth but is either deserted or has poor or miserly inhabitants; esp. in Mock-Beggar Hall.Also occurring in English place names (see etymological note above): in quot. 1835 at mock adj. 1c apparently a place in Sussex.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun] > instance of

showa1500

making-upa1525

shine?1529

face1542

varnish1565

copy of one's countenance1579

false1598

mock-beggar1603

mockerya1616

umbrage1634

simulacrum1833

phoney war1939

1603 N. Breton Merrie Dialogue 5 This is a banquetting house, where the gazers are onely fed with conceipts, for there is not a chimney that smokes, nor a doore open, it is called Mock-begger, ha, ha, ha.

1616 T. Gainsford Rich Cabinet f. 52 A Gentleman without meanes, is like a faire house without furniture, or any inhabitant,..whose rearing was chargeable to the owner, and painfull to the builder, and all ill-bestowed, to make a mock-begger, that hath no good morrowe for his next neighbour.

1622 J. Taylor Water-cormorant C 2 b The poore receiue their answer from the Dawes, Who in their caaing language call it plaine Mockbegger Manour, for they came in vaine.

a1648 Roxburghe Ballads (1847) 49 (title) Mock-Begger's Hall.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Mock-Beggar-Hall, a house with an inviting external aspect, but within poor and bare, dirty, and disorderly, and disappointing those who beg alms at the door.

1835 T. W. Horsfield Hist. County Sussex I. 136 Some old buildings in a place called the Mock-beggars.

1840 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 338 Both places..bear the name of Mock-Beggar's Hall. The one is an insulated rock near Bakewell..presenting from the road the semblance of a house... The other is a Tudor..mansion in the parish of Claydon..which..remained so long unoccupied as to be the cause of numerous disappointments to those travellers who had never been taken in before.

1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Mock-Beggar-Hall: a house which has an inviting external aspect, but within is poor and bare, dirty and disappointing.

1991 What's Brewing (BNC) Oct. 8 He gets his Fuggles from a leading grower named Tony Redsell at the splendidly-named Mockbeggar Farm near Faversham.

†2. = bull-bear n. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies > object of terror (usually imaginary)

buga1425

buggart1440

gay horse1483

bogle?1507

chimera?1521

bog1527

terriculament1548

bugbear1552

bull-bear1561

hag1563

boggard1574

scare-bug1583

bull-beggar1584

kill-cow fray1589

poker1598

bug-boy1601

bogle-bo1603

mormo1605

mock-beggar1611

mormolukee1624

Tom Poker1673

raw-head1678

hobgoblin1709

bugaboo1733

Tom Po1744

spectre1774

bogy-man1862

bogy1865

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Beffana A bug-beare, a scarcrow, a mock~begger, a toy to mocke an ape.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mock-beggar
释义	mock-beggarn. Brit. /ˈmɒkbɛɡə/, U.S. /ˈmɑkˌbɛɡər/ Forms: see mock v. and beggar n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mock v., beggar n. Etymology: < mock v. + beggar n.Also attested in place names, as Mockbeggar (1684, Rutland), Mocbeggar Hall (1690; now Mockbeggar Hall, Cheshire), Mock-beggar (1737, West Yorkshire); see also quot. 1835 at mock adj. 1c. 1. British colloquial. Something which serves to disappoint the hopes of beggars. Chiefly attributive and in the genitive: designating a house that has an appearance of wealth but is either deserted or has poor or miserly inhabitants; esp. in Mock-Beggar Hall.Also occurring in English place names (see etymological note above): in quot. 1835 at mock adj. 1c apparently a place in Sussex. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun] > instance of showa1500 making-upa1525 shine?1529 face1542 varnish1565 copy of one's countenance1579 false1598 mock-beggar1603 mockerya1616 umbrage1634 simulacrum1833 phoney war1939 1603 N. Breton Merrie Dialogue 5 This is a banquetting house, where the gazers are onely fed with conceipts, for there is not a chimney that smokes, nor a doore open, it is called Mock-begger, ha, ha, ha. 1616 T. Gainsford Rich Cabinet f. 52 A Gentleman without meanes, is like a faire house without furniture, or any inhabitant,..whose rearing was chargeable to the owner, and painfull to the builder, and all ill-bestowed, to make a mock-begger, that hath no good morrowe for his next neighbour. 1622 J. Taylor Water-cormorant C 2 b The poore receiue their answer from the Dawes, Who in their caaing language call it plaine Mockbegger Manour, for they came in vaine. a1648 Roxburghe Ballads (1847) 49 (title) Mock-Begger's Hall. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Mock-Beggar-Hall, a house with an inviting external aspect, but within poor and bare, dirty, and disorderly, and disappointing those who beg alms at the door. 1835 T. W. Horsfield Hist. County Sussex I. 136 Some old buildings in a place called the Mock-beggars. 1840 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 338 Both places..bear the name of Mock-Beggar's Hall. The one is an insulated rock near Bakewell..presenting from the road the semblance of a house... The other is a Tudor..mansion in the parish of Claydon..which..remained so long unoccupied as to be the cause of numerous disappointments to those travellers who had never been taken in before. 1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Mock-Beggar-Hall: a house which has an inviting external aspect, but within is poor and bare, dirty and disappointing. 1991 What's Brewing (BNC) Oct. 8 He gets his Fuggles from a leading grower named Tony Redsell at the splendidly-named Mockbeggar Farm near Faversham. †2. = bull-bear n. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies > object of terror (usually imaginary) buga1425 buggart1440 gay horse1483 bogle?1507 chimera?1521 bog1527 terriculament1548 bugbear1552 bull-bear1561 hag1563 boggard1574 scare-bug1583 bull-beggar1584 kill-cow fray1589 poker1598 bug-boy1601 bogle-bo1603 mormo1605 mock-beggar1611 mormolukee1624 Tom Poker1673 raw-head1678 hobgoblin1709 bugaboo1733 Tom Po1744 spectre1774 bogy-man1862 bogy1865 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Beffana A bug-beare, a scarcrow, a mock~begger, a toy to mocke an ape. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1603
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