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Beggar vs Drifter - What's the difference?

beggar | drifter |

As nouns the difference between beggar and drifter

is that beggar is a person who begs while drifter is a person who moves from place to place or job to job.

As a verb beggar

is to make a beggar of someone; impoverish.

beggar

English

(wikipedia beggar)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who begs.
  • * , chapter=13
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] 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.}}
  • * 1983 , Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image , St. Augustine’s Press, p. 62:
    • Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a beggar .
  • A person suffering from extreme poverty.
  • * 1883 , :
    • I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar , sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!

    Synonyms

    * (who begs) mendicant, panhandler, schnorrer, spanger, truant * (extremely poor person) palliard, pauper, vagabond

    Derived terms

    * beggarly * beggarliness * beggar's-lice * beggar-tick * beggarweed * beggary * beggars can't be choosers

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
  • To exhaust the resources of; to outdo.

    • Synonyms

    * ruin

    Derived terms

    * beggar-my-neighbor * beggar thy neighbor * beggar belief * beggar description

    Anagrams

    * English agent nouns

    drifter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pejorative) A person who moves from place to place or job to job.
  • (nautical) A type of lightweight sail used in light winds like a spinnaker.
  • * 1995 , Ken Textor, The New Book of Sail Trim (page 85)
    • In winds above 10 knots we usually run wing-and-wing with our 100 percent lapper set on a whisker pole opposite the mainsail. As the wind drops, we get out the drifter and set it flying to leeward (Fig. 1).
  • * 1999 , Lin Pardey, ?Larry Pardey, Cost Conscious Cruiser: Champagne Cruising on a Beer Budget
    • After trying a variety of light-wind sails, we've found the most versatile and simple one to be a nylon drifter .
  • * 2000 , Jim Howard, ?Charles J. Doane, Handbook of Offshore Cruising (page 178)
    • Some people recommend a medium- to lightweight 140- or 150-percent headsail, and others go for a drifter /reacher.
  • (automotive) A driver who uses driving techniques to modify vehicle traction to cause a vehicle to slide or power slide rather than drive in line with the tires.
  • * 2006 , Paul Morton, How to Drift: The Art of Oversteer (page 32)
    • However, sensing the available traction may actually be more important to a drifter .
  • * 2007 , Calvin Wan, Calvin Wan's Drifting Performance Handbook (page 132)
    • For professional drifters looking for even more fine-tuning of their suspension setups, some companies offer more advanced two-way adjustable shocks
  • * 2009 , Michael Bender, The Fast, the Fraudulent and the Fatal (page 50)
    • While this method is used by a few drifters in rear-wheel drive cars, this technique is really the only way one can drift in a front-wheel drive car.