Noun: beggar be-gu(r)
- A pauper who lives by begging
"The beggar sat on the street corner, asking passersby for spare change";
- mendicant
- Be beyond the resources of
"This beggars description!"
- Reduce to beggary
"The medical bills beggared the family";
- pauperize, pauperise [Brit]
Derived forms: beggaring, beggars, beggared
Type of: defy, impoverish, indigent, pauper, refuse, resist
Encyclopedia: Beggar