beggar
US: /ˈbɛɡɝ/
UK: /bˈɛɡɐ/
UK: /bˈɛɡɐ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
beggar /'begə/
- danh từ
- người ăn mày, người ăn xin
- (thông tục) gã, thằng, thằng cha
- you little beggar!: a, thằng ranh con
- beggars must (should) be no choosers
- ăn mày còn đòi xôi gấc
- to know something as well as a beggar knows his bag
- (xem) know
- ngoại động từ
- làm nghèo đi, làm khánh kiệt
- (nghĩa bóng) vượt xa; làm cho thành bất lực
- to beggar description
- (xem) description
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun
1 a person who lives by asking people for money or food: beggars sleeping on the pavement
2 (BrE, spoken) used with an adjective to describe sb in a particular way: Aren't you dressed yet, you lazy beggar? + She's in Bali, the lucky beggar.
Idioms: beggars can't be choosers (saying) people say beggars can't be choosers when there is no choice and sb must be satisfied with what is available
+ verb [VN] to make sb/sth very poor: Why should I beggar myself for you?
Idioms: beggar belief / description to be too extreme, shocking, etc. to believe/describe: It beggars belief how things could have got this bad.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 mendicant, supplicant, suppliant, alms-man, sponger, tramp, vagrant, pauper, Colloq cadger, scrounger, US panhandler:
We were approached by beggars on every street corner.
2 fellow, man, person, Colloq chap, guy, bloke:
I feel sorry for the poor beggar who lost his wallet at the station.
v.
3 impoverish; want, challenge, defy, baffle:
The misery of those people beggars description.
Concise English dictionary
beggars|beggared|beggaring'begə
noun
+a pauper who lives by begging
verb
+be beyond the resources of
+reduce to beggary
