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BEGGARMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beggarman mean? 

BEGGARMAN (noun)
  The noun BEGGARMAN has 1 sense:

1. a man who is a beggarplay

  Familiarity information: BEGGARMAN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BEGGARMAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who is a beggar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("beggarman" is a kind of...):

beggar; mendicant (a pauper who lives by begging)


 Context examples 


I called about that beggarman, Boone—the one who was charged with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. Clair, of Lee.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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