begging
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 7
/ˈbɛɡɪŋ/
Definition of begging
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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The act of one who begs.
“The Brahmans were very annoying in their beggings for money […]”
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noun
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The act of one who begs.
“The Brahmans were very annoying in their beggings for money […]”
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(in-plural)Money or goods acquired by begging.
“Then a thin old hag […] moaned out, "Twopence for two ounces!" and had to go out of the shop unmeated, since her earnings — or her beggings — had not brought her enough to have that small price to spare.”
verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of beg
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English begging, beggyng, beggynge, equivalent to beg + -ing (gerund ending).
Words you can make from begging
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