Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
beggar or some aspect of one:poor ,wheedling ,insolent , etc.
Etymologies
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beggar + -like
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Examples
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These fourteen years have I gone ranging beggarlike about the world, looking for nought other than this, which, now that it is come, so I may never again hope for weal, hath found me in a prison whence I have no hope ever to come forth, save dead. '
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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