beggar

A person who begs.

“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.

Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a beggar.

A person suffering from extreme poverty.

I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!

A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel.

What does that silly beggar think he's doing?

A minced oath for bugger.

the last placer in Tycoon

To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.

To exhaust the resources of; to outdo or go beyond.

`Now,' answered Ayesha, with proud humility - `now when my lord doth speak thus royally and give with so free a hand, it cannot become me to lag behind in words, and be beggared of my generosity.'

It was a scene of such beauty it caught all his attention. Some things beggar likeness, he thought.