clapperdudgeon

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  1. A beggar. It is but the part of a clapperdudgeon, to strike a man in the street. Greene, George-a-Greene. A Clapperdogeon is in English a Begger borne; some call him a Pallyard. Dekker, Bellman of London (ed. 1608), sig. C, 3.

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  1. Also clapperdogeon; apparently from clapper, clap, + dudgeon, a dagger, or a handle.
 

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