Beggar

Noun

 * 1) A person who begs.
 * 2) A person suffering from extreme poverty.

Verb

 * 1) To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
 * 2) To exhaust the resources of; to outdo.

Adjectives for Beggar
sturdy; amiable; jolly; disciplined; filthy;whining; gloomy; worthless; disgraced;greedy; blind; wandering; monkish; implacable; stalwart; unclean; bareheaded; crippled; loathsome; fawning; grimacing; piteous; penniless; tattered; pestiferous; hideous; impudent; professional; formidable.

Verbs for Beggar
contribute to—; corrupt—; die a—; ease—;feast—; foster—; lodge—; reduce to—; relieve—; repel—; revive—; sink to—; spurn—; —s band together; —complains; —desires; —entreats; —implores; —intrudes;—loafs; —petitions; —pleads; —roams; — shirks; —starves; —struggles; —tramps along.

Thesaurus
almsman, almswoman, asker, baffle, bankrupt, beach bum, beachcomber, beggarly fellow, blighter, bloke, bo, budmash, bum, bummer, cadger, caitiff, casual, challenge, chap, charity case, coupon clippers, deadbeat, defy, derelict, devil, dogie, down-and-out, down-and-outer, drifter, drone, drunkard, fellow, freeloader, gamin, gamine, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, guttersnipe, guy, hardcase, hobo, homeless waif, human wreck, idle rich, idler, impoverish, indigent, landloper, lazzarone, leisure class, loafer, losel, lounge lizard, lowlife, lumpen proletariat, man, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, mendicant, mendicant friar, mendicant order, moocher, mucker, mudlark, no-good, nonworker, panhandler, parasite, pauper, pauperize, pauvre diable, penniless man, person, petitioner, piker, pilgarlic, poor creature, poor devil, poor man, poorling, prayer, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, reduce, rentiers, rounder, sad case, sad sack, schnorrer, scrounger, ski bum, skid-row bum, spiv, sponge, sponger, starveling, stiff, stray, street Arab, street urchin, suitor, sundowner, suppliant, supplicant, supplicator, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, the unemployable, the unemployed, tramp, truant, turnpiker, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vaurien, waif, waifs and strays, want, wastrel, welfare client, worthless fellow, wretch

Etymology
From begart, originally a member of the Beghards, a lay brotherhood of mendicants in the Low Countries, from  beggaert "mendicant," with pejorative suffix; the order is said to be named after the Liege priest Lambert le Bègue (French for "Lambert the Stammerer"); others claim it's from  beggere or beggare:, from beggen: + -are:

Synonyms

 * mendicant, panhandler, schnorrer, spanger, truant
 * palliard, pauper, vagabond


 * ruin

Derived terms

 * beggarly
 * beggarliness
 * beggar's-lice
 * beggar-tick


 * beggarweed
 * beggary
 * beggars can't be choosers


 * beggar-my-neighbor
 * beggar thy neighbor
 * beggar belief
 * beggar description