Definitions
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- adverb In the manner of a
beggar ; bybegging orscrounging .
Etymologies
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beggar + -wise
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Examples
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Then, desirous of seeing Jeannette, he began beggarwise, to haunt the neighbourhood of her house, where one day Jamy Lamiens, (for so was
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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