Eggar vs Beggar - What's the difference?
eggar | beggar |
A person who begs.
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, title= * 1983 , Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image , St. Augustine’s Press, p. 62:
A person suffering from extreme poverty.
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As nouns the difference between eggar and beggar
is that eggar is any moth of the family family: Lasiocampidae while beggar is a person who begs.As a verb beggar is
to make a beggar of someone; impoverish.eggar
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(wikipedia eggar) (Lasiocampidae)Synonyms
* lappet moth * snout mothAnagrams
* (l) * (l) ----beggar
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(wikipedia beggar)Noun
(en noun)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.}}
- Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a beggar .
- I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar , sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!