Trump vs Beggar - What's the difference?

trump | beggar |

As a proper noun trump

is a metonymic occupational name for a trumpeter.

As a noun beggar is

trump

English

Etymology 1

Possibly from Italian trionfi (triumph(s) ).

Noun

(en noun)

(US, in the singular, cards) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.

(British, in the plural, cards) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.

Diamonds were declared trumps .

(cards) A playing card of that suit.

He played an even higher trump .

(figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.

An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.

* 1851 ,

All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump ; the captain begged his pardon.

* Thackeray

Alfred is a trump , I think you say.

An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.

(Decker)

(in the plural) The major arcana of the tarot

A card of the major arcana

Verb

(en verb)

(cards) To play a trump (on a card of another suit).

He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped .

(cards) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump

To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.

* Ben Jonson

to trick or trump mankind

(dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.

* C. Leslie

Authors have been trumped upon us.

To supersede.

In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.

Synonyms

* (To play a trump card on another suit) ruff * (To get the better of a competitor) outsmart

Coordinate terms

* (To play a trump card on another suit) underruff, overruff

Derived terms

* the last trump * no trump * overtrump * trump card * trump out * trump up * under trump

Etymology 2

From (etyl) trompe "trumpet" from (etyl) trompe "horn, trump, trumpet", from (etyl) * "trumpet". Akin to (etyl) trumpa, trumba "horn, trumpet", (etyl) tromme "drum", (etyl) trumme "drum". More at (l), (l).

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A trumpet.

* Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:52

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible

Verb

(en verb)

To blow a trumpet.

(intransitive, slang, UK) To flatulate.

And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.

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beggar

English

(wikipedia beggar)

Noun

(en noun)

A person who begs.

* , chapter=13

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* 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