Reverse Dictionary: BEG

ADJECTIVES
1530 ► BEGGARISH beggarly → obs.
1538 ► MANGY beggarly, lousy, squalid, poverty-stricken, shabby
1542 ► BAGGAGE beggarly, trashy, worthless, despicable → obs.
1542 ► BEGGARY beggarly, poor; mean, contemptible → obs.
1591 ► RAGAMUFF beggarly, rough, good-for-nothing, disorderly → obs.
1601 ► SKELDERING begging, sponging, swindling → cant obs. exc. arch.
1610 ► MAUNDERING begging; given to begging → sl.
1652 ► MENDICIARY appropriate to beggars → obs.
1709 ► MUMPING given to begging
M18. ► OUT ON THE SCRAN begging for scraps of food → sl.
E19.. ► ON THE CADGE begging; engaged in scrounging → sl.
1818 ► RAGABASH beggarly, untidy → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
M19. ► ON THE SCROUNGE begging, cadging → sl.
1864 ► ON THE MOOCH engaged in begging or sponging; looking for opportunities to get small sums of money, handouts, etc. → cant obs. exc. arch.
1890 ► RAGAMUFFINLY beggarly
L19.. ► ON THE DOWNRIGHT wandering the country as a beggar → UK tramps’ sl.
1904 ► SCOOTIE beggar-like, low, mean → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 ► RAGGILY beggarly, untidy → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 ► BON begged, borrowed → Sc. (Bk.)
1988 ► ON THE EASTER EGG begging, scrounging → Sc. sl.

NOUNS
1225 ► BIDDING the act of begging, asking pressingly, or requesting; request, desire, entreaty → obs.
1382 ► BEGGINGNESS the condition of a beggar, poverty, beggary → obs.
1505 ► BEGGARTY the state or condition of a beggar; extreme poverty → Sc. obs.
1561 ► WALLET a beggar’s bag
1573 ► NEEDAM → NEEDHAM beggary, need, poverty → obs.
1591 ► BEGGAR’S BUSH beggary, ruin → obs.
17C.. ► MAUND a begging; a begging ruse, such as a fake sore → UK criminals’ sl.
17C.. ► MUMPING a begging, scrounging, or soliciting favours → sl.
E17.. ► MAUNDERING TOOLS items used to enhance one’s begging image and thus gain more sympathy and alms → sl.
1608 ► RING money obtained by begging or extortion → sl. obs.
1610 ► MAUNDING the act of begging; an act of begging → Brit. sl.
1636 ► BEGGARISM professional beggary; extreme poverty
1777 ► FAW-GANG a gang of beggars, gypsies, or rogues
19C.. ► CADGING HOUSE a beggar’s dwelling place → sl.
19C.. ► KEDGER’S COFFEE-HOUSE a centre for beggars → sl.
19C.. ► KEDGER’S HOTEL a centre for beggars → sl.
E19.. ► CADGING a begging → sl.
E19.. ► CADGING-BAG a bag in which to put one’s profits → sl.
E19.. ► GRUB-CADGING a begging house to house for food → sl.
1812 ► LETTER-RACKET a going about to respectable houses with a letter or statement, detailing some case of extreme distress, as shipwreck, sufferings by fire, etc.
1812 ► THE CADGE the profession of begging or cadging → sl.
1821 ► GAG the patter of a beggar → sl.
1828 ► RAG-CASTLE a haunt of beggars
1845 ► GRUB-HUNTING a begging for food → tramps’ sl.
M19. ► BRAKE LURK → BREAK LURK a fraudulent begging letter, claiming a broken limb or ribs → UK criminals’ sl.
M19. ► PANHANDLE the act of begging → US sl.
M19. ► PANHANDLE BEAT the world of beggary → US sl.
M19. ► SCALDRUM-DODGE the practice of deliberately burning the body with a mixture of acids and gunpowder so as to stimulate scars and wounds that should soften the hearts of those from whom one begs → tramps’ sl.
M19. ► SCRAN-BAG a beggar’s receptacle for the scraps of food they solicit → sl.
M19. ► SCRANNING a begging for scraps of food → Sc.
M19. ► SCRAN-POCKET a beggar’s receptacle for the scraps of food they solicit → sl.
M19. ► SKATES-LURK the practice of posing as a sailor for the purpose of begging → UK criminals’ sl.
1851 ► LURKING a fraudulent begging, following the occupation of a fraudulent beggar → UK criminals’ sl.
1859 ► GAMMY VIAL → GAMMY VILLE a town where the police will not let persons beg or hawk → UK tramps’ sl. obs.
1882 ► BEGGARDOM the beggar’s profession; the mendicant fraternity
1887 ► GADGE a begging, a sponging → Sc.
1894 ► MUMPERY a begging
1894 ► POKE-OUT a bag of food given to a beggar → sl.
1898 ► THIG a begging, a borrowing → Sc.
1898 ► BEGGAR’S STAFF a state of beggary or bankruptcy → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► RAGABRAG a beggarly, untidy state → Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
1898 ► RAGABRASH a beggarly, untidy state → Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
1899 ► GAG a begging trick → Amer. tramps’ sl.
L19.. ► ABRAM-SHAM the practice of travelling the country posing as a mad man → sl.
L19.. ► DOWNRIGHT a begging, a tramping → UK tramps’ sl.
L19.. ► GAGGING a begging for money → beggars’ usage
20C.. ► CACADA a little food or a very small amount of money, typically used to appease a beggar → W. Indies
1900 ► EAR-BITING a begging, a cadging → Aust. sl.
1904 ► SCAFF anything collected by dishonourable or importunate begging → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 ► BLIND-TAM a bundle of rags made up as a child, carried by beggars → Sc. (Bk.)
1924 ► STEMMING a begging, an act of begging → US sl.
1929 ► STEM a begging, an act of begging → US sl.
1936 ► THE GAGGING LARK a begging for money → UK sl.
1962 ► GAG any artifice employed by a beggar to elicit sympathy → US sl.

NOUNS, PERSON
1225 ► HARLOT a beggar; a vagabond; a vagrant; a rogue; a rascal­; a villain → obs.
1362 ► BIDDER a person who asks or begs → obs.
1386 ► BEGSTER a beggar → obs.
1393 ► BEGENELD → BEGENILD a beggar → obs.
15C.. ► PALLIARD a professional beggar → UK criminals’ sl.
1444 ► VAGRANT an itinerant beggar, an idle loafer, or tramp; one of a class of persons who having no settled home or regular work wander from place to place, and maintain themselves by begging or in some other dishonest or disreputable way
1450 ► GANGERAL → GANGEREL → GANGERELL → GANGREL → GANGRILL a wandering beggar; a vagrant, a vagabond, tramp; a wanderer, a walker; a peddler
1495 ► HERMIT a quasi-religious mendicant; a vagabond
1508 ► GABERLOONIE → GABERLOONY a licensed or professional beggar; in later use: a travelling tinker; a beggar in general → Sc.
1508 ► GABERLUNGY an itinerant beggar, a vagrant; sometimes, a licensed beggar, a beadsman → Sc. arch.
1508 ► GABERLUNZIE a licensed or professional beggar; in later use: a travelling tinker; a beggar in general → Sc.
1508 ► HALLAND SHAKER → HALLAN-SHAKER a beggar who stands shaking the ‘hallan’; a vagabond, a sturdy beggar (hallan – the partition of a cottage wall, esp. when it cuts off the front door from the fire) → Sc.
1508 ► LAZARUS a beggar; a leper
1522 ► BEDLAM a discharged, but often only half-cured, inmate of a lunatic asylum, who was licensed to beg, wearing as a badge a tin plate on their left hand or arm → obs.
1531 ► VALIANT BEGGAR a sturdy beggar → obs.
1540 ► BELLYTER a beggar → obs.
M16. ► ABRAHAM a wandering beggar adopting tattered clothing and posing as a madman → sl.
M16. ► AURIUM a wandering beggar posing as some type of priest → UK criminals’ sl.
M16. ► FRESHWATER MARINER → FRESHWATER SEAMAN a criminal beggar who claimed to have suffered shipwreck or piracy and requested alms to return home → UK criminals’ sl.
M16. ► JACKMAN a mendicant villain who used his abilities of reading and writing to forge counterfeit begging licenses → UK criminals’ sl.
1550 ► ABRAHAM COVE a genuine lunatic allowed on certain days to leave Bethlehem Hospital to beg → sl.
1550 ► ABRAHAM MAN a genuine lunatic allowed on certain days to leave Bethlehem Hospital to beg → sl.
1550 ► ABRAM COVE a genuine lunatic allowed on certain days to leave Bethlehem Hospital to beg → sl.
1550 ► ABRAM MAN a genuine lunatic allowed on certain days to leave Bethlehem Hospital to beg → sl.
1556 ► MUMBLECRUST a person who lacks teeth; a beggar (obs.)
1562 ► UPRIGHT MAN a senior criminal beggar, outranked, if at all, only by the ‘ruffler’; he held absolute power, demanding and receiving both cash and kind, including their women, from his inferiors and beating them without fear of revenge → UK criminals’ sl. obs.
1566 ► UPRIGHT COFE → UPRIGHT COVE a senior criminal beggar → UK criminals’ sl. obs.
1566 ► WALKING MORT an unmarried female beggar, often accompanied by a child, who claimed to be widowed and begged for her and her offspring’s keep → UK criminals’ sl.
1567 ► ABRAM COVE a sturdy beggar, i.e. one who could but rarely does, work for a living → sl.
1567 ► ABRAM MAN a sturdy beggar, i.e. one who could but rarely does, work for a living → UK sl.
1567 ► ABRAM MAN a wandering beggar adopting tattered clothing and posing as a madman → sl.
1567 ► BAWDY BASKET a female beggar who sells obscene literature, as well as pins, ballads, and other goods → UK criminals’ sl.
1567 ► CLAPPERDUDGEON a beggar born → arch.
1567 ► DOMMERER → DUMMERER a beggar who pretended to be dumb → sl. obs.
1567 ► GLIMMER a person who begs, usually a woman, saying she has lost her possessions in a fire → criminals’ sl.
1567 ► GLIMMERING MORT a woman who travels the country begging, saying her goods have been burnt → sl. obs.
1569 ► STURDY-BEGGAR an able-bodied beggar who is capable of earning his living → cant
1575 ► TINKER a beggar → Sc., Irish, mainly derogatory
1588 ► HEDGE-PRIEST a beggar who poses as a priest, who works in rural areas, ministering to other beggars and the local peasantry → UK criminals’ sl.
1592 ► CANTER a beggar; a vagrant; one who uses ‘cant’ → sl.
1592 ► MORT DELL an unmarried woman or virgin girl who accompanies a mendicant villain → sl.
1597 ► BEGGAR-BRAT a child who begs
1598 ► TARTAR a beggar; a strolling vagabond; a tramp; a thief → cant obs.
L16.. ► MASTER OF THE BLACK ART a beggar → Brit. sl.
17C.. ► AARON a beggar → sl.
17C.. ► ABRAM-MORT a wandering beggar adopting tattered clothing and posing as a madman → sl.
17C.. ► FAKER OF LOGES → FEAGER OF LOGES → FEAKER OF LOGES a beggar, esp. one who backs up his fraudulent tales with especially created fake documents → sl.
17C.. ► TOM OF BEDLAM a genuine beggar (rather than a criminal, and hence fake one) → sl.
E17.. ► FRESHWATER SOLDIER a professional beggar who trades on his spurious reminiscences of battles and campaigns of which, in fact, he has no personal experience → sl.
E17.. ► MAUNDING COVE a beggar → sl.
E17.. ► REACHER a beggar who walks always with a female mate → sl.
1605 ► BEDLAM-BEGGAR a discharged, but often only half-cured, inmate of a lunatic asylum, who was licensed to beg, wearing as a badge a tin plate on their left hand or arm → obs.
1607 ► GLIMMERER → GLYMMERER a person who begs with a sham license, pretending losses by fire → sl. obs.
1608 ► GABBLING DOMMERAR a beggar who pretends to be dumb and talks nonsensically → sl. obs.
1610 ► ABRAM a wandering beggar adopting tattered clothing and posing as a madman → UK criminals’ sl.
1610 ► FEAGUER a beggar who uses false passes or counterfeit writings → obs.
1610 ► MAUNDERER a professional beggar → Brit. sl.
1611 ► BESONIAN → BEZONIAN a needy beggar, a base fellow, a knave, a rogue, a rascal (contemptuous) → obs.
1611 ► TATTERDEMALION → TOTTER-DE-MALLION a beggarly, ragged, or miserable person; a person in tattered clothing
1612 ► ABRAHAM COVE a beggar of ragged and dishevelled appearance, esp. one who feigns insanity → cant obs.
1612 ► ABRAM COVE a wandering beggar adopting tattered clothing and posing as a madman → UK criminals’ sl.
1612 ► BISOGNIO → BISOGNO a needy beggar, a base fellow, a knave, a rascal → obs., contemptuous
1621 ► BEDLAMITE a discharged, but often only half-cured, inmate of a lunatic asylum, who was licensed to beg, wearing as a badge a tin plate on their left hand or arm → obs.
1622 ► HIGH-FLYER a genteel beggar or swindler → UK sl.
1625 ► BESOGNIO → BESONIO a needy beggar; a base, worthless fellow, a low, vulgar person → obs., contemptuous
1643 ► ELEEMOSYNARY a beggar; one who lives upon alms → obs.
1649 ► GABERLUNGYMAN a wandering beggar → Sc.
1649 ► GABERLUNZIE MAN an itinerant beggar → arch.
1652 ► BEGGAR-BRACH a female beggar → obs.
1652 ► BEGGAR-NIGGLER a person who toys with a beggar-woman → obs.
1668 ► BADGEMAN a beggar or an alms-house man: so called because a special dress or badge is worn to indicate that the wearer belongs to a particular foundation
1674 ► MUMPER a genteel beggar; a scrounger → UK criminals’ sl.
1675 ► BEDLAMER a discharged, but often only half-cured, inmate of a lunatic asylum, who was licensed to beg, wearing as a badge a tin plate on their left hand or arm → obs.
1696 ► STROLLER a beggar, a gypsy, a peddler → sl.
1696 ► STROLLING-MORT an unmarried female beggar who pretends to be a widow → cant
1698 ► BEDDALL → BEDDELL a licensed beggar → Sc.
L17.. ► ABRAM-MORT a sturdy beggar, i.e. one who could but rarely does, work for a living → sl.
L17.. ► JOCKEY a strolling beggar or minstrel → Sc. obs. exc. hist.
L17.. ► MAD TOM a beggar who counterfeits madness → sl.
18C.. ► DOPEY a beggar’s woman → Brit. sl.
E18.. ► MUMP a beggar; a scrounger → sl.
1703 ► CADATOR a beggar who pretends to be a decayed gentleman; a confidence trickster  especially one posing as a gentleman fallen on hard times → Eng. dial. & sl.
1720 ► MAUNDER → MAWNDER a beggar
1737 ► CADGER a beggar; a tramp; a scrounger; a loafer; a petty thief → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1742 ► HELLENSHAKER a beggar; a ragged fellow; a vagabond; a knave; a rascal → Sc.
1748 ► HEDGE-PARSON a beggar who poses as a priest, who works in rural areas, ministering to other beggars and the local peasantry → UK criminals’ sl.
1756 ► FAW a gypsy, a beggar, a vagrant; an itinerant tinker 
1760 ► PALLIARD a beggar-woman who uses a child, either her own or one borrowed for the purpose, to excite the pity of passers-by; this pity often increased by the child’s piteous cries, created by judicious pinches and prods → UK & US criminals’ sl.
1768 ► CAIRD → KAIRD a sturdy beggar; a travelling tinker; a gypsy; a tramp → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1778 ► WALLETEER an itinerant beggar who carries a wallet (a bag for holding provisions, clothing, books, etc. on a journey either on foot or on horseback)
1781 ► POTACK a beggarly person → Eng. dial. obs.
1788 ► RANDIE → RANDY a sturdy, rude-mannered beggar; a thorough vagrant → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1790 ► BESSOGNE a needy beggar → Eng. dial. obs., contemptuous usage
1791 ► CADGE-CLOAK → CADGE-GLOAK a beggar → sl.
1793 ► BEADSMAN a licensed beggar; a public almsman → Sc.
1795 ► BAGGORE a beggar → obs. (Bk.)
L18.. ► CAD a beggar → sl.
19C.. ► HOOKEM-SNIVEY a person who pretends sickness, calamity, etc., in the streets, in order to excite compassion and charity → Sc. sl.
19C.. ► KEDGER a beggar who gains money for performing small jobs → sl.
E19.. ► WALKING BUCKRA a beggar → W. Indies
1803 ► BLUEGOWN a licensed beggar → Sc. obs.
1806 ► MAN OF MEAN a beggar → Sc.
1821 ► HIGH-FLYER a ‘swell’ beggar who poses as a fashionable gentleman → sl.
1825 ► GABERLUNYIE-MAN a beggar or ‘blue-gown,’ who wears the king’s badge; a beggar with a wallet; an itinerant mechanic or tinker, who carries in his bag the implements of his trade → Sc.
1841 ► LURKER a criminal beggar who travels the country showing off various forged certificates referring to losses in fires, shipwrecks or similar disasters, and hoping thereby to get financial aid
1842 ► ACCIDENT LURK those who beg on the basis of having suffered a bad accident → UK sl.
1845 ► SCALDRUM a beggar who practices the ‘scaldrum dodge’; one who deliberately burns his body with acids and gunpowder to stimulate scars and wounds that should soften the hearts of those from he begs → UK criminals’ usage
M19. ► LAND NAVY beggars who pose as impoverished seamen → sl.
M19. ► PALMER a beggar who visits shops and claims to be collecting halfpence engraved with a harp, offering the shopkeeper 13 pence for a shilling’s worth and persuading them to empty all their coppers on the counter; while they search the pile, the palmer hides as many coins as possible → sl.
M19. ► SCOLDRUM a beggar who deliberately burns his body with acids and gunpowder to stimulate scars and wounds that should soften the hearts of those from he begs → UK criminals’ sl.
1850 ► WALKER an itinerant beggar, vagrant, vagabond, or tramp → Eng. dial.
1851 ► DARKEY → DARKIE → DARKY a beggar who pretends to be blind → sl.
1851 ► MOOCHER a cadger; a beggar; a hawker
1855 ► HAKE a pertinacious beggar; a greedy, grasping person; a miser
1855 ► HANDBARROW BEGGAR a disabled beggar carried from door to door on a stretcher, as formerly customary in Scotland, or on a wheelbarrow → Sc. rare
1857 ► MOOCHER → MOUCHER an unskilled beggar or petty thief; hence, a sponger
1858 ► ASKER a beggar → Eng. euphemism
1863 ► BEGGARESS a female beggar
1864 ► SILVER BEGGAR → SILVER LURKER a beggar who claims to have suffered in some disaster or other, e.g. a fire or shipwreck, and asks for money in order to rebuild their life; such pleas are accompanied by a variety of documents, supposedly ‘proving’ the legitimacy of their claims → sl.
1866 ► MOLL-BUZZER a female beggar or pickpocket; a female thief → Amer. sl.
1869 ► TATTER-RAGS a beggar; a poorly dressed, ragged person; a ragamuffin (Bk.)
1870 ► MOCK LITANY RECITER a beggar who makes his demands in a sing-song or versifying manner → UK sl.
1871 ► MOCK LITANY MEN beggars who make their demands in a sing-song or versifying manner → UK sl.
1874 ► TATTER-CLOUT a beggar; a poorly dressed, ragged person; a ragamuffin → Eng. dial.
1876 ► BEGGAR BODIES beggars → Sc. (Bk.)
1882 ► MOCK LITANY MONGER a beggar who makes his demands in a sing-song or versifying manner → UK sl.
1884 ► GAGGER a beggar; a tramp, one who uses ‘true’ stories to enhance the basic beggar’s entreaties → sl.
1884 ► GANGING BODY a beggar, a tramp, a vagrant → Sc.
1885 ► THIGGER a beggar; a mendicant → Sc.
1886 ► AGGRESSIVE BEGGAR a person who begs for money in a manner considered to be unduly threatening or intimidating
1886 ► GEGOR a beggar → UK sl.
1887 ► GRUB-STEALER a beggar who steals food from another → tramps’ sl.
1888 ► BEGGESTERE a beggar → obs. (Bk.)
1889 ► BEACH-CADGER a beggar who favours seaside resorts, and poses as a sailor → sl. (Bk.)
1891 ► BAM a beggar who fakes physical ills → UK sl.
1892 ► SCHNORRER → SHNORRER a beggar → US sl.
1893 ► BAGGER-WENCH a beggar girl → Eng. dial  (Bk.)
1893 ► GANNER a poor beggar or hawker → Eng. dial (Bk.)
1893 ► TATTER-WALLETS a beggar; a poorly dressed, ragged person; a ragamuffin → Eng. dial  (Bk.)
1894 ► GIMP a crippled beggar; a lame person or one unable to walk → sl., orig. US
1895 ► GANGING MAN a beggar, a tramp, a vagrant → Sc. obs.
1897 ► PANHANDLER a beggar → sl., orig. US
1898 ► BARROW-MAN a lame beggar carried from house to house in a barrow → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► BEGGAR-BANGER an officer whose duty it was to expel beggars from the town → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► BEGGAR-WENCH a beggar-girl → Eng. dial  (Bk.)
1898 ► BOUNCER a professional beggar → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► BOUNCING BUFFER a beggar (Bk.)
1898 ► CADGE a young peddler; a hawker; a beggar or tramp → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► JACK OF BEDLAM a discharged patient, half-cured, wearing a tin plate on the left arm licensing him to beg (Bk.)
L19.. ► PUT-ON an old female beggar who specializes in ‘putting on’ a look that makes her look as pitiful as possible → Eng. dial.
L19.. ► STREET-GANGER a beggar → cant
1900 ► GANGER a beggar; a tramp, a vagrant, a hawker → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► FAKE BANDAGER a beggar who poses as a cripple to elicit sympathy → US criminals’ sl.
1900 ► WALK-FOOT a beggar → W. Indies
1904 ► GRUBBER a beggar → Amer. sl.
1904 ► PLINGER a beggar → sl. rare
1905 ► RAGGED ROBIN a beggarly, discreditable person → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► RAGMAG a ragged beggar; a woman all in tatters → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► RANDY-BEGGAR a beggar who extorts alms by threatening; a tinker → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 ► THIGSTER a beggar; a mendicant → Sc. (Bk.)
1907 ► YEGG a city beggar → US sl.
1908 ► TAPPER a beggar; a borrower or cadger → UK sl.
1910 ► BUZZARD a beggar, the lowest form of tramp → US criminals’ sl.
1913 ► ALKY STIFF an alcoholic beggar or tramp → US sl.
1914 ► MOOCH a beggar; a scrounger; a sponger; a borrower, a cadger; an idler → sl., chiefly US
1918 ► DINGBAT an alcoholic beggar or tramp → US tramps’ sl.
1918 ► DUMMY a beggar who pretends to be deaf and dumb → sl.
1918 ► GANDY STIFF a street beggar → US tramps’ sl
1918 ► WANGY a beggar who sells bootlaces as a front for his basic trade of begging → US tramps’ sl.
1920 ► BARREL-HOUSE BUM a beggar drunkard; an urban, wine-drinking beggar → Amer. tramps’ sl.
1920 ► GHOUL a beggar who looks haggard and imitates a tubercular cough → US sl.
1920 ► MOOCHING MOLL a beggar woman → US criminals’ sl.
1921 ► HIGHFLIER a pretentious beggar (Bk.)
1925 ► HIGH-HEELS a female beggar or tramp → sl.
1925 ► MOUNDER a beggar → US sl.
1928 ► DANGLER a beggar or criminal → US criminals’ sl.
1929 ► HIGH-HEELER a female beggar → sl.
1929 ► MOOCHING KID a young (male) beggar; a young hanger-on, an incipient criminal → US criminals’ usage
1930 ► ARMY a beggar who has lost one or both arms → US tramps’ sl.
1930 ► DEAFEY → DEAFY a deaf beggar, or one who poses as such → US criminals’ sl.
1930 ► DOWNRIGHTER a beggar; a tramp → sl.
1930 ► LIMPTY a crippled beggar → US tramps’ sl.
1930 ► LIMPY a crippled beggar → US tramps’ sl.
1932 ► HEAVY LURKER a comparatively reputable, often well-educated, and formerly well-placed, professional beggar, operating mainly with begging letters and hard-luck stories → UK criminals’ sl.
1937 ► D AND D a beggar who is or who pretends to be deaf and dumb → US beggars’ sl.
1937 ► GHOST a beggar who simulates the symptoms of tuberculosis in order to excite sympathy → US criminals’ sl.
1939 ► BEDDLAR a beggar → Amer. dial.
1939 ► DIVER a beggar who forages in trashcans → US sl.
1942 ► MOOCH → MOUCH an easy subject for a beggar → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1948 ► BUMMER a person who bums,  scrounges, begs for, or cadges something, usually cigarettes or drinks
1948 ► FAKE CRIP a beggar who pretends to be crippled → US criminals’ sl.
M20. ► DING a beggar; an alcoholic tramp or beggar → US tramps’ sl.
1961 ► AGGRESSIVE PANHANDLER a person who begs for money in a manner considered to be unduly threatening or intimidating
1975 ► BLINKIE  a beggar who feigns blindness (Bk.)
1983 ► MOOCHIE a beggar; a scrounger; a sponger; an idler → US sl.
1990 ► SCAB a person who attempts to beg money or food → UK juvenile sl.
1997 ► BAUCAGH-SHOOL an itinerant beggar → Irish sl. (Bk.)
2001 ► SCABBER a person who attempts to beg money or food → UK juvenile sl.
2002 ► BEGGING PONCE a man who organizes teams of beggars and takes a percentage of their earnings, but who does not beg himself → criminals’ sl. (Bk.)

VERBS
1175 ► BESEECH to beg earnestly for, to entreat a thing → obs.
1320 ► FAIT to beg on false pretenses → obs.
1536 ► MAUND → MAWND to beg; to ask or require → criminals’ cant obs.
1546 ► BEAR THE WALLET to be a beggar → obs.
1599 ► TURN TO BAG AND WALLET to become a beggar → obs.
17C.. ► MAUND ABRAM to beg while posing as a madman → sl.
E17.. ► MAUNDER ON THE FLY to beg in the streets → Brit. sl.
1601 ► SKELDER to beg; to live by begging, esp. by passing oneself off as a wounded or disbanded soldier → cant obs. exc. arch.
1610 ► MAUNDER to beg → Brit. sl.
M17. ► GO TO BATH to take up life as a beggar
1685 ► MUMP to beg, to visit a house in the course of one’s travels as a beggar
1700 ► PRIG to beg, to entreat; to plead with
M18. ► CALL to beg through (e.g. a street) → cant
M18. ► PALAVER to beg from; to ask someone for something; to wheedle out of
1753 ► GAG to beg → UK sl.
L18.. ► CADGE to wander the country as a beggar; to beg or go about begging → sl.
E19.. ► ABRAHAM SHAM to travel the country posing as a madman; to fake illness; said of a beggar → sl.
E19.. ► ABRAM-SHAM to travel the country posing as a madman; to fake illness; said of a beggar → sl.
E19.. ► DO A CADGE to exist by begging → sl.
E19.. ► LOUNGE THE GAG to beg → UK criminals’ sl.
E19.. ► MACE to beg or demand money from → sl.
1809 ► GO ON THE LOW GAG to beg alms in the streets, with a pretended broken arm, leg, etc. → UK sl.
1817 ► THIG to beg, to borrow; to solicit alms on certain occasions, such as on setting up housekeeping, etc. → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1832 ► LAY ON THE CADGE to beg or bargain skilfully → Sc. obs.
1840 ► GRUB to beg food → sl.
1843 ► CALL to go round begging; to sell or hawk in a cart → Sc.
1845 ► TAKE ON THE FLY to beg from persons as they pass on the street → sl.
M19. ► BLOB to beg by delivering some form of speechifying or patter → Aust. & UK criminals’ sl.
M19. ► WORK THE PANHANDLE to beg → US sl.
1851 ► STAND PAD to beg by the way or road → sl.
1857 ► MOOCH to beg; to obtain, as by begging → Amer. sl.
1858 ► BONE to beg; to wheedle → Amer. dial.
1863 ► MEECH to gather up by begging → Eng. dial.
1875 ► FACE THE KNOCKER to go begging → tailors’ sl.
1887 ► GADGE to beg, to sponge → Sc.
1889 ► BRACE to beg; to ask for money or other support, esp. in a demanding way → Amer. dial.
1892 ► SCHNORR → SHNOOR to beg → US sl.
L19.. ► PAN to beg → US sl.
L19.. ► PARKER to beg, to ask, to speak → sl.
L19.. ► WADDY to beg, to implore → Aust. sl.
20C.. ► HUSSLE to obtain money or some other commodity through begging → sl.
1902 ► HUSTLE to beg, to cadge → US beggars’ & tramps’ sl.
1903 ► PANHANDLE to beg → sl., chiefly US
1903 ► TAKE TO THE ROAD to turn beggar, highwayman, or tramp → sl. (Bk.)
1904 ► STRIKE to beg, to borrow, to get money; to steal; to get into debt → sl. (Bk.)
1910 ► FANG to beg for a loan; to demand money; to cadge → Aust. sl.
1910 ► PUT IN THE FANGS to beg → Aust. sl.
1910 ► PUT THE FANG ON to beg → Aust. sl.
1912 ► SPEAR to beg → US sl.
1913 ► PLING to beg → US sl.
1917 ► BUZ → BUZZ to beg from; to solicit handouts from a person or on a street → Amer. tramps’ sl.
1927 ► CHISEL → CHIZZLE to obtain by begging or underhanded means → US sl.
1929 ► DING to beg → Amer. dial.
1930 ► NICKEL-AND-DIME IT to beg; to manage with little money → US sl.
1935 ► PUT THE BUM ON to beg or scrounge from → US sl.
1935 ► TAP to beg → sl.
1936 ► PUT THE DING ON to beg from → US sl.
1939 ► BEDDLE to beg → Amer. dial.
1947 ► RATTLE THE CAN to beg money on an empty street → US sl.
1950 ► BATTER to beg on the street → US sl.
1990 ► VAMP to beg from → sl.