See Also: beggar 1, noun(dictionary)
BEGGAR(law)
beggar(2)(dictionary)
beggar(1)(dictionary)
Beggar's Opera, The(dictionary)
beggar 2, verb(dictionary)
Beggar - Poker(gambling)
beggar's lice(medicine)
Beggar thy neighbor(finance)
Beggar-thy-neighbor(money)

bough (iou) and beggar 1, noun (oh)


bough (iou)



bough noun & verb.
[Old English bog, boh = Middle Low German boch, buch (Low German boog), Middle Dutch boech (Dutch boeg shoulders, chest of a horse, bows of a ship), Old High German buog shoulder, forearm (German Bug horse's hock or point of shoulder, bow of a ship), Old Norse bogr shoulder, from Germanic, rel. to Greek pekhus forearm, cubit.]
A. noun.
1. The shoulder of an animal. OE-LME.
2. Any of the larger limbs or offshoots of a tree; a (main) branch. OE.
3. A limb, a leg. Scot. M16.
4. The gallows. arch. L16.
Comb.: bough-house (a) US a temporary structure made of boughs; (b) dial. (now Hist.) a house opened only at fair-time for the sale of liquor; bough-pot (arch. & dial.) = BEAU-POT.
B. verb trans. Strip of boughs. rare. E16.
boughed adjective having boughs; stripped of boughs: LME.

beggar 1, noun (oh)



someone who lives by asking people for Food and money
::the beggars on the streets
lucky/lazy/cheeky etc beggar
BrE spoken used when speaking to or about someone you like
::'How's Dave?' 'The lucky beggar's in the south of France!'
beggars can't be choosers
used to say that when you have no money or no power to choose, you have to accept whatever you are given