beggarman

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noun

A male beggar.

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Meanings

nounbeggarman (plural beggarmen)

plural beggarmen

  1. A male beggar.

    “Has he nae friends?” said she, in a tearful voice. “That has he so!” cried Alan, “if we could but win to them!—friends and rich friends, beds to lie in, food to eat, doctors to see to him—and here he must tramp in the dubs and sleep in the heather like a beggarman.”

    1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC

Origin

From beggar + man.

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APA

beggarman. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beggarman

MLA

“beggarman.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beggarman. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “beggarman,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beggarman.

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