beggar
英 ['begə]
美 ['bɛɡɚ]
英語の語源
- beggar (n.)
- c. 1200, from Old French begart, originally a member of the Beghards, lay brothers of mendicants in the Low Countries, from Middle Dutch beggaert "mendicant," of uncertain origin, with pejorative suffix (see -ard). Compare Beguine. Early folk etymology connected the English word with bag. Form with -ar attested from 14c., but begger was more usual 15c.-17c. The feminine form beggestere is attested as a surname from c. 1300. Beggar's velvet was an old name for "dust bunnies." "Beggers should be no choosers" is in Heywood (1562).
- beggar (v.)
- "reduce to poverty," mid-15c., from beggar (n.). Related: Beggared; beggaring. Figurative use by 1640s.
例文
- 1. He warned that lifting copyright restrictions could beggar the industry.
- 彼は著作権制限を解除すると業界が貧しくなると警告した。
- 2.He 's a sly old beggar if ever there was one.
- 彼は確かに老獪なやつだ。
- 3.The statistics beggar belief.
- 統計は信じられない。
- 4.Aren 't you dressed yet，you lazy beggar ？
- 怠け者のあなたはまだ服を着ていませんか？
- 5.The beggar begged from the rich but they refused.
- その乞食は金持ちたちに物乞いをしていたが拒否された。
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