beggarsome

English

Etymology

From beggar +‎ -some.

Adjective

beggarsome (comparative more beggarsome, superlative most beggarsome)

1. Characteristic or typical of a beggar
   • 1839, Simon Gray, Hugh Blair, The Spaniard:

     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! [...]

   • 1876, Greenwood's Farewell and Other Poems:

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

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

     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."