To receive by begging; to beg (alms, one's food, etc.); in modern Scottish, to solicit gifts on special occasions, esp. on setting up housekeeping…
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释义 | the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > beg or be beggar [verb (intransitive)] (32) thigc1300 To receive by begging; to beg (alms, one's food, etc.); in modern Scottish, to solicit gifts on special occasions, esp. on setting up housekeeping… begc1384 To ask alms or by way of alms. intransitive. To ask alms; esp. to ask alms habitually, to live by asking alms. Const. absol.; of, from, formerly at… crave1393 absol. to go a-begged1393 In phrase to go a-begged: to go a begging. prowl1530 intransitive. To seek for gain or advantage in a mean, grasping, or underhand way; to cadge, scrounge. Obsolete. to go (or have been) a begging1535 to go (or have been) a begging. to go about begging. (Cf. begged, adv.) maund?1536 transitive and intransitive. To beg; to ask. to bear the wallet1546 A beggar's bag. to bear the wallet to be a beggar. cant1567 intransitive. To speak in the whining or singsong tone used by beggars; to beg. prog1579 intransitive. British regional, Irish English, and U.S. regional (chiefly southern and Chesapeake Bay). To forage, delve; to poke about for; to… to turn to bag and wallet1582 †to turn to bag and wallet: to become a beggar. to give (one) the bag to hold: to engage any one while taking the opportunity to slip away, to… skelder1602 intransitive. To beg; to live by begging, esp. by passing oneself off as a wounded or disbanded soldier. maunder1611 intransitive. To beg. strike1618 slang. To beg; also in to strike it. emendicate1623 absol. To beg. mendicate1623 intransitive. To beg. rare. to go a-gooding1646 The action of begging or collecting alms; spec. the custom of going round the wealthier households of a parish at Christmas time to beg for money or… mump1685 Now slang and English regional. intransitive. To beg, go about begging; to sponge upon. Cf. mumper, n. shool1736 intransitive. To go about begging; to sponge, to acquire some advantage by insidious means; also to skulk. cadge1819 intransitive. To go about as a cadger or pedlar, or on pretence of being one; to go about begging. dialect and slang. to stand pad1841 slang. to sit pad: to sit begging by the roadside. Similarly to stand pad. Obsolete. stag1860 slang. (See quot. 1860.) bum1870 intransitive. To beg or scrounge; to cadge. Often with off, from,on. schnorr1875 intransitive. To beg or importune a person; to sponge (off a person); to ask for charity. panhandle1894 intransitive. To beg. Also occasionally transitive with it: to scrape or scrounge a living. pling1915 intransitive. To beg. to pling the stem: to beg on the street. Also transitive: to beg from (a person). stem1924 To beg or ‘panhandle’ on the streets. Cf. stem, n.1 6b. U.S. slang. nickel-and-dime1942 intransitive. To beg. Now rare. Subcategories:— within specified limits (1) — on specific traditional occasions (2) — on false pretences (1) |
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