beggarsome

comparative more beggarsome · superlative most beggarsome

1. Characteristic or typical of a beggar.

   How," says I, "could the beggarsome planet be filled, If the coves that do nothing were taken and killed? "

   1876, Greenwood's Farewell and Other Poems

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   It's only one of those fleericums which, at the instirgation of that beggarsome, proud thing, and your enemy as well as mine,—Miss, as they call her—Miss Delby-faugh! [...]

   1839, Simon Gray, Hugh Blair, The Spaniard

   I hate to be tellin' things that haven't the laste bit of trooth in 'em; but there's no gittin' rid o' the beggarsome lad, I'm after findin' out, an' sartin I am it's no more ov a sin for me to be tellin' stories than for min an' wimmin for to be writin' 'em down in books."

   1881, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton, New Outlook - Volume 24