ABSP - Beggars

Beggars

beggar	one who begs; (verb) to reduce to the condition of a beggar.
beggardom	the state of being a beggar.
beggarhood	the state of being a BEGGAR.
beggarliness	the state of being BEGGARLY.
beggarly	like a BEGGAR, very poor.
beggary	extreme poverty.
besognio	a beggar > BESOGNIOS. [It. besogno, need, want].
besonian bezonian	(Shakespeare) a beggar.
bindle	the bundle in which a hobo carries all his worldly possessions.
bludge	to do nothing, idle; to sponge off others. [From bludgeoner, one who wields a bludgeon].
bludger	an idler, a scrounger.
bluegown	one of a former class of licensed beggars in Scotland.
bum	a tramp; a sponger; (verb) to cadge.
cadge	to beg or sponge from another.
cadger	a scrounger; orig a dealer who travelled around remote country areas, buying and selling farm produce.
caird	a travelling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar.
canter	one who cants, a beggar.
clackdish clapdish	a wooden dish carried by beggars, with a moveable lid which they clacked to attract attention.
clochard	a beggar; a vagrant. [Fr. clocher, to limp, from L. clopus, lame.]
cosherer	someone who eats at the expense of others, especially relatives.
craver	one who craves, a beggar.
dummerer	somebody who pretends to be dumb in order to appear a more deserving beggar.
fakir faqir fakeer faquir	a religious (esp Muslim) mendicant, ascetic or wonder-worker in India, etc.
gaberlunzie	a wandering beggar or a harmless hobo.
gangrel	wandering; vagrant; (noun) a vagabond.
hobo	a tramp; (verb) to travel as a hobo > HOBOS or HOBOES, HOBOING, HOBOED.
hobodom hoboism	the state of being a HOBO.
jarkman	a vagabond who fabricates counterfeit passes, licenses and certificates for others > JARKMEN.
landloper	a wanderer, a vagabond. [Dutch landlooper, from land + lopen, to run].
lazzarone	a homeless idler of Naples who lives by chance work or begging; -- so called from the Hospital of St. Lazarus, which serves as their refuge > LAZZARONI.
maund	to beg.
maunder	a beggar.
mendicancy	the condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging.
mendicant	a beggar; a friar who depends on alms.
mendicity	the practice of begging; mendicancy.
mump	to visit in order to sponge from.
mumper	a beggar; a begging impostor.
palliard	a professional beggar; a vagabond.
panhandler	someone who begs from someone esp. on the street.
prog	to wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts.
progger	one who PROGS, wanders about and begs.
randie randy	a violent beggar, esp. a woman.
randy	a violent beggar; a coarse virago.
roguery	the life of a vagrant.
ruffler	a beggar posing as a maimed soldier or sailor.
runagate	a fugitive, a runaway, a vagabond.
scatterling	a vagrant.
schnorr	to beg, esp. in such a way as to make the giver feel beholden.
schnorrer shnorrer	a beggar; esp one who wheedles others into supplying his wants.
screeve	to write esp. begging-letters.
screever	one who writes begging-letters; a pavement artist.
scunge	a scrounger, a dirty person; (verb) to slink about.
semihobo	a person having some of the characteristics of a hobo > SEMIHOBOS or SEMIHOBOES.
shnorrer	see SCHNORRER.
skell	a homeless person who lives on the streets.
sorn	to impose in order to obtain hospitality, to sponge.
sorner	one who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board.
sponger	one that sponges, scrounges.
sundowner	(Aus. sl.) a loafer or tramp who arrives at a place in time for an evening meal but too late to do any work.
thig	to beg; to live on alms > THIGS, THIGGING, THIGGIT.
thigger	one who THIGS, a beggar, cadger.
toerag toeragger	a beggar, tramp; a despicable person.
tramp tramper	one who tramps; a vagrant or vagabond.
trampish	like a tramp.
vagabond	to go about as a beggar.
vagabondish	like a vagabond.
vagabondism	being a vagabond.
vagrancy	the state of being a vagrant.
vagrant	a wanderer with no apparent means of support.
vagrantly	(adv.) VAGRANT, wandering.
vagrom	vagrant. No —S.
waffie	a vagabond.
whipjack	a whining beggar who pretends to be a sailor.

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