Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| beggar | one who begs; (verb) to reduce to the condition of a beggar. |
| beggardom | the state of being a beggar. |
| beggarhood | the state of being a BEGGAR. |
| beggarliness | the state of being BEGGARLY. |
| beggarly | like a BEGGAR, very poor. |
| beggary | extreme poverty. |
| besognio | a beggar > BESOGNIOS. [It. besogno, need, want]. |
| besonian bezonian | (Shakespeare) a beggar. |
| bindle | the bundle in which a hobo carries all his worldly possessions. |
| bludge | to do nothing, idle; to sponge off others. [From bludgeoner, one who wields a bludgeon]. |
| bludger | an idler, a scrounger. |
| bluegown | one of a former class of licensed beggars in Scotland. |
| bum | a tramp; a sponger; (verb) to cadge. |
| cadge | to beg or sponge from another. |
| cadger | a scrounger; orig a dealer who travelled around remote country areas, buying and selling farm produce. |
| caird | a travelling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar. |
| canter | one who cants, a beggar. |
| clackdish clapdish | a wooden dish carried by beggars, with a moveable lid which they clacked to attract attention. |
| clochard | a beggar; a vagrant. [Fr. clocher, to limp, from L. clopus, lame.] |
| cosherer | someone who eats at the expense of others, especially relatives. |
| craver | one who craves, a beggar. |
| dummerer | somebody who pretends to be dumb in order to appear a more deserving beggar. |
| fakir faqir fakeer faquir | a religious (esp Muslim) mendicant, ascetic or wonder-worker in India, etc. |
| gaberlunzie | a wandering beggar or a harmless hobo. |
| gangrel | wandering; vagrant; (noun) a vagabond. |
| hobo | a tramp; (verb) to travel as a hobo > HOBOS or HOBOES, HOBOING, HOBOED. |
| hobodom hoboism | the state of being a HOBO. |
| jarkman | a vagabond who fabricates counterfeit passes, licenses and certificates for others > JARKMEN. |
| landloper | a wanderer, a vagabond. [Dutch landlooper, from land + lopen, to run]. |
| lazzarone | a homeless idler of Naples who lives by chance work or begging; -- so called from the Hospital of St. Lazarus, which serves as their refuge > LAZZARONI. |
| maund | to beg. |
| maunder | a beggar. |
| mendicancy | the condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging. |
| mendicant | a beggar; a friar who depends on alms. |
| mendicity | the practice of begging; mendicancy. |
| mump | to visit in order to sponge from. |
| mumper | a beggar; a begging impostor. |
| palliard | a professional beggar; a vagabond. |
| panhandler | someone who begs from someone esp. on the street. |
| prog | to wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts. |
| progger | one who PROGS, wanders about and begs. |
| randie randy | a violent beggar, esp. a woman. |
| randy | a violent beggar; a coarse virago. |
| roguery | the life of a vagrant. |
| ruffler | a beggar posing as a maimed soldier or sailor. |
| runagate | a fugitive, a runaway, a vagabond. |
| scatterling | a vagrant. |
| schnorr | to beg, esp. in such a way as to make the giver feel beholden. |
| schnorrer shnorrer | a beggar; esp one who wheedles others into supplying his wants. |
| screeve | to write esp. begging-letters. |
| screever | one who writes begging-letters; a pavement artist. |
| scunge | a scrounger, a dirty person; (verb) to slink about. |
| semihobo | a person having some of the characteristics of a hobo > SEMIHOBOS or SEMIHOBOES. |
| shnorrer | see SCHNORRER. |
| skell | a homeless person who lives on the streets. |
| sorn | to impose in order to obtain hospitality, to sponge. |
| sorner | one who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board. |
| sponger | one that sponges, scrounges. |
| sundowner | (Aus. sl.) a loafer or tramp who arrives at a place in time for an evening meal but too late to do any work. |
| thig | to beg; to live on alms > THIGS, THIGGING, THIGGIT or THIGGED. |
| thigger | one who THIGS, a beggar, cadger. |
| toerag toeragger | a beggar, tramp; a despicable person. |
| tramp tramper | one who tramps; a vagrant or vagabond. |
| trampish | like a tramp. |
| vagabond | to go about as a beggar. |
| vagabondish | like a vagabond. |
| vagabondism | being a vagabond. |
| vagrancy | the state of being a vagrant. |
| vagrant | a wanderer with no apparent means of support. |
| vagrantly | (adv.) VAGRANT, wandering. |
| vagrom | vagrant. No —S. |
| waffie | a vagabond. |
| whipjack | a whining beggar who pretends to be a sailor. |