Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

beggarsome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: beg-gar-some
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characteristic or typical of a beggar

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

From beggar + -some.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: beggar

Inflected Forms

more beggarsome (comparative) most beggarsome (superlative)

Questions

What does beggarsome mean?: Characteristic or typical of a beggar
Where does beggarsome come from?: From beggar + -some.

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