单词 | beggarly |
释义 | beggarlyadj. 1. In the condition of a beggar, indigent; befitting a beggar, mean, poverty-stricken. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor havelessOE unrichOE waedlec1000 armOE nakedOE helplessc1175 wantsomec1175 poora1200 barec1220 needfula1225 misease?c1225 unwealya1300 needyc1325 feeblec1330 poorful1372 mischievousc1390 miseasedc1390 indigentc1400 meanc1400 naughtyc1400 succourless1412 unwealthyc1412 behove1413 misterousa1425 misterfulc1480 miserablec1485 beggarly1545 starved1563 threadbare1577 penurious1590 fortuneless1596 wealthless1605 wantful1607 necessitous1611 inopulent1613 titheless1615 egene1631 starveling1638 necessitated1646 inopious1656 parsimonious1782 unopulent1782 lacking1805 bushed1819 obolary1820 ill-to-do1853 down at heel1856 po'1866 needsome1870 down-at-heeled1884 rocky1921 the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [adjective] beggarish1530 beggary1542 beggarly1545 mendicant1609 briviatic1622 mendicatory1661 1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (vii.) f. 102v Poore..beggerly fryers. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. i. 123 The rest were ragged, old, and beggerly . View more context for this quotation 1704 A. Pope Corr. 26 Dec. (1956) I. 2 No Beggar is so poor but he can keep a Cur, and no Author is so beggarly but he can keep a Critic. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 330 As children multiplied..the household..became more and more beggarly. 2. figurative. Intellectually poor, destitute of meaning or intrinsic value. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [adjective] tooma1250 beggarly1526 trumpery1576 balductum1577 skimble-skamble1598 nonsense1621 warbling1621 flim-flam1631 nonsensical1645 unsensical1692 fiddlecome1697 waffling1698 mataeological1716 flummery1749 water-gruelish1788 slip-sloppish1797 twaddling1804 twaddle1830 twaddly1841 fee-faw-fumish1846 poppycock1852 boshy1860 twaddlesome1865 moonshiny1880 cockalorum1881 tommyrotic1894 crappy1928 ballsy1942 farkakte1960 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Gal. iv. 9 Weake and bedgarly [1611 beggerly] cerimones. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xv. 491 Weak and beggarly Arguments. 1883 Daily Rev. (Edinb.) 6 June 2/7 That most crude and beggarly conception of reform. 3. Displaying the spirit of a beggar; mean, sordid. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible unworthc893 unwrastc893 littleOE narrow-hearteda1200 wretcha1200 unworthya1240 wretchedc1250 un-i-wrastc1275 bad1276 lechera1300 feeblea1325 despisablea1340 villain1340 contemptiblec1384 lousyc1386 caitiff1393 brothelyc1400 roinousa1425 poor1425 sevenpennyc1475 nasty1477 peakish1519 filthy1533 despectuous1541 beggary1542 scald1542 shitten?1545 disdainfula1547 contemptuous1549 despicable1553 skit-brained?1553 contemniblea1555 vile1560 sluttish1561 queer1567 scornful1570 scallardc1575 tinkerly?1576 worthless1576 beggarly?1577 paltry1578 halfpenny1579 dog bolt1580 pitiful1582 sneaking1582 triobolar1585 wormisha1586 baddy1586 dudgeon1592 measled1596 packstaff1598 roguey1598 roguish1601 contemptful1608 grovelling1608 lightly1608 disdainable1611 purulent1611 snotty-nose1622 vilipendious1630 cittern-headed1638 wormy1640 pissabed1643 triobolary1644 disparageable1648 blue-bellied1652 unestimable1656 scullion1658 piteous1667 dirty1670 shabbed1674 shabby1679 snotty1681 snotty-nosed1682 mucky1683 bollocky1694 scoundrel1700 scaldeda1704 sneaking1703 ficulnean1716 unsolid1731 pitiable1753 scrubby1754 inimitable1798 scrubbish1798 worm-likea1807 small1824 lowlife1827 ketty1828 skunkish1831 yellow-bellied1833 scaly1843 cockroachya1845 wutless1853 nigger1859 trashy1862 low-down1872 cruddy1877 shitty1879 tinhorn1886 blithering1889 motherfucking1890 snidey1890 pilgarlicky1894 shitass1895 shoddy1918 yah boo1921 bitching1929 shit-faced1932 turdish1936 fricking1937 jerk-off1937 chickenshit1940 sheg-up1941 snot-nosed1941 jerky1944 mother-loving1948 scroungy1948 fecking1952 pissant1952 shit-kicking1953 shit-eating1956 bumboclaat1957 rassclaat1957 shit-headed1959 farkakte1960 shithouse1966 daggy1967 dipshit1968 scuzzy1969 bloodclaat1971 bitch ass1972 wanky1972 streelish1974 twatty1975 twattish1976 dweeby1988 douchey1991 wank1991 cockish1996 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [adjective] > base or vile low?c1225 lechera1300 vilea1300 feeblea1325 unfreec1330 villain1340 wrackc1375 villains1390 noughty1443 slovenly?1518 peasant1550 sluttish1561 vild1567 knaifatic1568 scallardc1575 base1576 tinkerly?1576 beggarly?1577 cullion-like1591 brokerly1592 broking1592 ignoble1592 cullionly1608 disnoble1609 unsolid1731 lowly1740 blackguard1751 blackguardly1779 menial1837 low-flung1841 caddish1868 basilar1884 bounding1904 bounderish1928 ?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 109 The beggerly and greedy desire. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxvi. sig. Yy8 Thou art the beggerliest dastardly villaine. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. v. 26 He renders me the beggerly thankes. View more context for this quotation 1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie ii. xix. 197 A very poor and beggarly evasion. 1858 R. W. Emerson Bks. in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 350/2 Lapsing into a beggarly habit. Compounds beggarly-looking adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [adjective] > like a beggar > looking like a beggar beggarly-looking1817 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. iv. 99 A forked, uncased, bald-pated, beggarly-looking, scare-crow. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). beggarlyadv. After the manner of a beggar or of one who begs. a. Indigently, meanly. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [adverb] poorlyc1330 soberlya1387 alowc1400 beggarlyc1400 penuriously1616 needily1642 necessitously1776 c1400 Rom. Rose 223 And both bihynde & eke biforne Clouted was she beggarly. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia i. sig. Fviiiv The resydewe lyue myserablye wretchedlye and beggerlye. a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 122 But he is worst, who (beggerly) doth chaw Others wits fruits. b. Suppliantly, entreatingly. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > [adverb] suppliantly1565 beggingly1598 petitionarily1604 askingly1611 supplicantly1629 supplicatorilya1631 eucticallya1638 begging-wise1645 precariously1646 earn1656 entreatingly1661 suppliant-like1670 supplicatingly1799 imploringly1810 beseechingly1830 pleadingly1838 appealingly1847 beggarly1850 precatively1869 1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) I. 58 Eve, who beggarly entreats your love. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1526adv.c1400 |
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