Reverse Dictionary: IMPORT – IMPQ

IMPORTED – adjectives
– BROUGHT-ON commercially made; not home-made; imported …1895 Amer. dial.
– BRUNG-ON commercially made; not home-made; imported …1937 Amer. dial.
 
IMPORTER – person
– INBRINGER an importer, one who brings in goods for sale …1921 Sc. 
 
IMPORTUNATE – adjectives
– ANWILL † self-willed, stubborn, obstinate; persistently desirous, importunate …c897
– ONWIL † self-willed, stubborn, obstinate; persistently desirous, importunate …c897
– ONWILL † self-willed, stubborn, obstinate; persistently desirous, importunate …c897
importunate – verbs 
– YAAG to be importunate, to insist irritatingly with questions or requests, to nag or harp on …1825 Sc.
 
IMPORTUNATELY – adverbs
– BESIEGINGLY * urgently, importunately …1822
 
IMPORTUNE – verbs
– BONE to beg; to wheedle; to request demandingly, to importune ..1858 Amer. dial.
– DING to reiterate, to repeat, to importune; to harp on one subject …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– EARWIG to urge, to importune; to pester with private importunities or admonitions; to influence or bias a person by secret communications …1837
– EGG to tease, to annoy, to pester, to irritate; to importune, to find fault continually, to nag …1746 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– LOPE to importune …Bk1902 Amer. dial.
– NIGG to importune, to trouble with repeated requests or inquiries, to nag or carp at …1866 Sc. 
– RAVEN to importune persistently …B1900 Eng. dial.
– TERRIFY to annoy, to irritate; to tease, to worry; to importune; to torment, to pain …1839 Eng. dial.
– TEW to annoy. to vex; to tease, to importune, to pester; to urge, to persuade …1781 Eng. dial.
– THRAVE † to urge, to importune …1671 Eng. dial.
– YAG to make a noise; to talk angrily; to importune incessantly; to irritate, to nag; to quarrel …1892 Sc. & Eng. dial.
 
IMPORTUNING – nouns
– NARG continual grumbling, importuning, or fault-finding; peevish wrangling …1866 Sc.
 
IMPORTUNITY – nouns
– IMPORTANCY † urgency, importunity …1598-9
 
IMPOSE – adjectives
– IMPONENT that imposes …a1882
 
IMPOSE ON/UPON – person
– BANTERER one who imposes on, or bamboozles …1709 arch.
– BOT a habitual borrower or cadger; a scrounger; a person who frequently imposes on others …1916 Aust. & NZ sl.
– FOUR-FLUSHER someone who imposes on others by bluffing …1904 US sl.
– GAGGER a person who imposes on another …1825
– QUANDONG * a person who deceives, exploits, or imposes on others …1939 Aust. sl.
impose on/upon – verbs
– BALAHACK to impose upon …1930s US sl.
– BALLYHACK to impose on …1952 Amer. dial.
– BAM to hoax, to practice on the credulity of; to deceive, to delude, to impose upon, to play a joke or trick on a person…1738 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BANTER to impose upon a person, orig, in jest; to delude, to cheat, to trick, to bamboozle …a1688 arch.
– BEGAB † to fool with words, to mock, to deceive, to delude; to impose upon …1297
– BEGULL † to gull, to impose upon …1605
– BLUDGE to shirk responsibility or hard work; to impose on; to cadge or scrounge …1919 sl.
– BOLLYHOCK to impose on …1952 Amer. dial.
– BRONZE † to impose upon, to cheat …1817 sl.
– BUDDY-FUCK to impose on, betray or otherwise inconvenience a friend …1960s US sl., mainly military
– CANT to deceive by pious pretenses; to impose upon …1877 Eng. dial.
– COME HALF LARKS WITH SOMEONE to impose on someone’s credulity …1923 Brit. sl.
– COME THE OLD SOLDIER to wheedle; to impose on someone …1818 UK sl., orig. military
– DEADBEAT to waste time; to idle about; to take advantage of, to impose on …1881 Amer. dial.
– GAGGER to deceive, to take in or impose upon a person …L18 sl.
– GAS to deceive or impose upon by talking ‘gas’ or nonsense …1847 US sl.
– HORSE AROUND to impose on contemptuously …1938 US sl.
– ILLUDE * to trick, to impose upon, to deceive with false hopes …1447
– IMPONE † to impose upon …1640
– JIG to cheat; to delude; to impose upon …1876 sl.
– MOMMOCK to harass, to tease, to annoy, to torment, to impose on …1946 Amer. dial.
– MUMMICK to harass, to tease, to impose on, to annoy, to torment …1966 Amer. dial.
– PALM † to play a trick, to cheat; to impose upon a person …1686
– PECK ON to take advantage of; to impose on; to bully …1899 Amer. dial.
– PLAY ONE A PAGEANT † to play him a trick; to impose upon or deceive him …1530
– POLE ON to impose on someone; to not do one’s fair share of work …1906 Aust. sl.
– PUT ON A CRUMB ACT to impose on another person …1950s Aust. sl.
– QUEER to impose on, to swindle, to cheat …1797 sl.
– RATCH to stretch, to extend; to exaggerate, to lie; to impose upon …1819 Eng. dial.
– RETCH to stretch, to extend; to exaggerate, to lie; to impose upon …1819 Eng. dial.
– TAKE IN to deceive, to cheat, to trick, to impose upon, to hoax …1740 colloq.
– TOP † to practice trickery; to impose upon …1664
– VERSE † to impose upon; to cozen, to cheat, to defraud …1591 cant
– WALK HEAVY to impose oneself on the world, to walk about in a deliberately self-assured manner …1960s US Black sl.
 
IMPOSED ON, UPON – adjectives
– BLAIT stupid, easily imposed on …Bk1911 Sc.
– EASY easily taken advantage of or imposed upon; gullible ..1698
– IMPOSABLE * capable of being imposed upon or cheated; gullible, dupable …a1734
– LAME easily imposed upon; stupid; inept; ineffectual; incompetent; unaware; inexperienced …1935 US sl., esp. Black usage
– TANDIDDLED imposed upon; bewildered; cheated …1876 Eng. dial.
– TARRADIDDLED imposed upon, as by lies; puzzled; bewildered …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
imposed upon – person
– BAWKEN a simple, unsuspecting person; one easily imposed upon …1924 Sc.
– GAGGEE one who is imposed on by another; a gullible person …1819
– GAUVEY a fool, a simpleton, a dunce; a half-witted person; a vacant-minded person, one that is easily imposed upon …1796 Eng. dial.
– GAUVISON an awkward, gaping fellow; a fool, a simpleton, a silly, staring fellow, a blockhead; a dunce; on easily imposed upon …1788 Eng. dial.
– GECK † a fool, a simpleton, a dunce; a stupid, clumsy fellow; one who is befooled or derided, one easily imposed on, a dupe …c1530 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– LAIN, LANE a person easily imposed upon or cheated; a victim; also, one who is foolish or socially unsophisticated …1933 US sl., esp. Black & criminals’ usage
– MOOCH a slow-witted person; one who is easily cheated, deceived, imposed upon, or swindled; a gullible or naive person; a dupe, a sucker …1910 colloq.
– SART-AND-FAIR a foolish, weak person; one easily imposed upon …1777 Eng. dial.
– SART-POLL a foolish, weak person; one easily imposed upon; a good-for-nothing fellow …1867 Eng dial.
– SAUCHEN-TOUP a simpleton; one who is easily imposed on …1825 Sc.
– SAUSAGE a person easily imposed upon; an ineffectual person …1896 US college sl.
– SCONE a weak-willed, irresolute person; one who is easily imposed on, a softie …1969 Sc.
– SILLY OLD SAUSAGE an ineffectual, easily imposed-upon person …L19 sl.
– SILLY SAUSAGE an ineffectual, easily imposed-upon person …L19 sl.
– ZATENFARE a foolish, weak person; one easily imposed upon …1777 Eng. dial.
imposed upon – phrases
– WILL YOU TAKE EGGS FOR MONEY? will you allow yourself to be imposed upon? …1633
 
IMPOSING – adjectives
– BELLISAND elegant; of imposing appearance …Bk1911 Sc.
– MAGNIFIC imposing by vastness or dignity …1558-66
– MAGNIFICAL imposing by vastness or dignity …1572 arch.
– MAGNITUDINOUS involving greatness of scale; great, magnificent, imposing …1803
– TEN-CARAT big; impressive; imposing …Amer. sl.
– VOGIE of things: imposing, grand, ostentatious …1722 Sc.
– WALLIE of things: large, ample, considerable, substantial, heavy, strong, imposing …1500-20 Sc.
– WALLY of things: large, ample, considerable, substantial, heavy, strong, imposing …1500-20 Sc.
imposing – person 
– BELLONA a spirited woman of commanding presence; an imposing and strong-willed woman; a courageous woman; a heroine …1820
– DEAD NAIL a shrewd, imposing criminal; a person of an over-reaching, imposing disposition …E19 sl.
– NAIL a person of an over-reaching, imposing disposition …1812 sl.
– NAILING RASCAL a shrewd, imposing criminal; a person of an over-reaching, imposing disposition …E19 sl.
– NAILS a shrewd, imposing criminal; a person of an over-reaching, imposing disposition …E19 sl.
 
IMPOSITION – nouns
– BAM a story intended to impose upon the credulous; a hoax or imposition; a trick, a joke …1762 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– BITE † an imposition, a deception; what is now called a ‘sell’; passing from the notion of playful imposition or hoax, to that of swindle or fraud …1711 sl.
– IMPOSAL †* the act of imposing; imposition …1641
– IMPOSEMENT * the act of imposing; imposition …1664
– IMPOSURY imposition …1892 Ireland
– ON-LIG a burden, a heavy imposition or responsibility …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
IMPOSSIBILITY – nouns
– NO-NO an impossibility; a failure; any negative outcome …1975 UK sl.
– UNPOSSIBILITY impossibility …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
IMPOSSIBLE – adjectives
– BENEEK contrary, impossible …1960s S. Afr.
– LAPUTAN pertaining to Laputa, the flying island in Gulliver’s Travels; hence, visionary, absurd, fanciful, preposterous, ridiculous, impossible …1866
– NO SOAP not possible or successful …US & Can. sl.
– NOT AN EARTHLY no chance at all; absolutely impossible …M18 sl.
– NOT ON unacceptable, impossible; not permissible; forbidden; not going to happen …1972 sl.
– SICK AND WRONG absolutely impossible, unthinkable, totally disgusting; also used ironically …1980s US campus sl.
– SNOOKERED placed in a deliberately difficult position or impossible situation …1915 UK sl.
– UNABLE † not able to be done, impossible …c1400
– UNPOSSIBLE impossible …1862 Sc. & Eng. dial.
impossible – nouns
– BLUE DAHLIA something impossible or unattainable; something rare or unheard of …1880
– KANGAROO FEATHERS an impossible thing, often an unlikely story …1910s Aust. sl.
impossible – verbs 
– BANG ONE’S HEAD AGAINST A BRICK WALL to try to achieve something impossible
– BELIEVE THE MOON IS MADE OF CHEESE to believe firmly something astounding, impossible, or absurd; hence, to be a fool …18C colloq.
– BOIL THE OCEAN to waste one’s time attempting to do the impossible …Bk2006 US sl.
– CATCH A HARE WITH A TABOR † to seek to do something almost impossible …1546
– CATCH THE WIND WITH A NET to attempt the impossible …1868
– CHANGE A FLY INTO AN ELEPHANT to undertake an impossible task …1809
– CUT SMOKE WITH A LEATHER HATCHET to attempt impossibilities …B1900 Eng. dial.
– DRINK UP THE SEA to attempt the impossible …B1900
– GAPE AGAINST A RED-HOT OVEN to do something impossible …1893 Eng. dial.  
– HUNT FOR A HARE WITH A TABOR † to seek to do something almost impossible …1399
– HUNT FOR HARES WITH A TABOR † to undertake an almost impossible or hopeless task …1592
– IMPOSSIBILITATE * to render impossible …1633
– LOOK FOR A NEEDLE IN A BOTTLE OF HAY to attempt an extremely difficult, impossible, or foolish task …1742
– LOOK FOR A NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK to attempt an extremely difficult, impossible, or foolish task …1855
– LOOK FOR A NEEDLE IN A MEADOW to attempt an extremely difficult, impossible, or foolish task …c1530
– MILK THE BULL to attempt the impossible …M18 Brit. colloq.
– MILK THE PIGEON to attempt the impossible …M18 Brit. colloq.
– MILK THE RAM to attempt the impossible …M18 Brit. colloq.
– NAIL JELL-O TO A TREE to do the impossible …1980s US college sl.
– PUSH SHIT UPHILL to attempt a difficult or impossible task …1983 Aust. & NZ 
– PUT A ROPE TO THE EYE OF A NEEDLE to attempt the impossible or absurd; to act foolishly and to no purpose …B1900
– SANDPAPER THE ANCHOR to perform a job that need not and, in fact, cannot be performed …1975 US sl.
– SEEK A HARE IN A HEN’S NEST † to attempt something that is almost impossible …1599
– SEEK A NEEDLE IN A BOTTLE OF HAY to attempt an extremely difficult, impossible, or foolish task …1690
– SEEK A NEEDLE IN A TRUSS OF HAY to attempt an extremely difficult, impossible, or foolish task …1711
– SET THE TORTOISE TO CATCH THE HARE † to seek to do something almost impossible …1798
– SHOOT THE GULF to succeed in a very hard task; to achieve the impossible …1629 nautical usage
– SNATCH A CLUB FROM HERCULES to attempt an impossible or very difficult task …1832
– TAKE HARES WITH FOXES † to seek to do something almost impossible …1577
– TEACH A PIG TO PLAY ON THE FLUTE to attempt the absurd or impossible …1884
– TEACH IRON TO SWIM to achieve the impossible …B1900
– THROW STRAWS AGAINST THE WIND to essay the impossible …Bk1904 sl.
– WASH A NEGRO † * (now offensive) to attempt an impossible task …1611
 impossible – interjections/phrases
– FALSE! no! impossible! that’s not true! …1989 US campus sl.
– IF THE CAT WENT A POUND an expression of impossibility …1990s Irish sl.
– IN A PIGS! completely impossible! absolutely not! I don’t believe you! go away! …M19 sl., orig. US
– IN A PIG’S ARSE! completely impossible! absolutely not! I don’t believe you! go away! …M19 sl., orig. US
– IN A PIG’S ASS! completely impossible! absolutely not! I don’t believe you! go away! …M19 sl., orig. US
– IN A PIG’S BUTT! completely impossible! absolutely not! I don’t believe you! go away! …M19 sl., orig. US
– IN A PIG’S EAR! completely impossible! absolutely not! I don’t believe you! go away! …M19 sl., orig. US
– IN A PIG’S EYE! completely impossible! absolutely not! I don’t believe you! go away! …M19 sl., orig. US
– IN A PIG’S GIZZARD! completely impossible! absolutely not! I don’t believe you! go away! …M19 sl., orig. US
– IN A PIG’S HOLE! completely impossible! absolutely not! I don’t believe you! go away! …M19 sl., orig. US
– IN A PIG’S NECK! completely impossible! absolutely not! I don’t believe you! go away! …M19 sl., orig. US
– IN A PIG’S POKE! completely impossible! absolutely not! I don’t believe you! go away! …M19 sl., orig. US
– IN A PIG’S SNOUT! completely impossible! absolutely not! I don’t believe you! go away! …M19 sl., orig. US
– IN A PIG’S TIT! completely impossible! absolutely not! I don’t believe you! go away! …M19 sl., orig. US
– IN A PIG’S TONSIL! completely impossible! absolutely not! I don’t believe you! go away! …M19 sl., orig. US
– IN A PIG’S VALISE! completely impossible! absolutely not! I don’t believe you! go away! …M19 sl., orig. US
– IN A PIG’S WIG! completely impossible! absolutely not! I don’t believe you! go away! …M19 sl., orig. US
– NO CAN DO cannot do, impossible …M19 sl.
– NOT FOR THE LIFE OF YOU expresses the impossibility of your doing or understanding something …1809
– NO WAY IN THIS WORLD! impossible! …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
 
IMPOSTOR – person
– ABUSER † one who perverts truth or abuses confidence; a deceiver or impostor …1579
– BITE † a sharper, a swindler, a cheat, a trickster, an impostor …Bk1698
– BLUFF an impostor; a deceiver, one who bluffs …M19 sl.
– BUNYIP an impostor …1852 Aust.
– CAFARD † a hypocrite, an impostor …1539
– DEADBEAT an impostor or pretender; a fraud; a cheat …1873 Amer. sl.
– FACTOR a cheat or impostor; a fraudulent fortune-teller …16C UK criminals’ sl.
– FAITOUR † an impostor, a cheat; a vagrant who shams illness or pretends to tell fortunes …a1340 obs . exc. arch.
– FAKE an impostor; broadly, an affected or insincere person …1886 Amer sl.
– FATER a cheat or impostor; a fraudulent fortune-teller …16C UK criminals’ sl.
– FAYTER a cheat or impostor; a fraudulent fortune-teller …16C UK criminals’ sl.
– FLAT-CATCHER an impostor …1823 sl.
– HALTER-CARRIER an impostor; in the early days if a horse escaped and followed a trail back, the people who lived along the way boarded the owner free of charge until he had found the horse; men who wanted to return to Kentucky or Ohio made their way easily, therefore, by carrying a bridle or halter as if they were looking for a horse …1912 Amer. dial.
– HINGKAPONK an impostor, or deceiver …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– HINKAPONK an impostor …Bk1902 Eng. dial. 
– IMPOSITOR an impostor …1916 Amer. dial.
– IMPOSTRESS * a female impostor …1614
– IMPOSTRIX †* a female impostor …1655 
– JAPER † a trickster, a deceiver, a seducer, an impostor …1362
– MOUNCH PRESENT † a ‘maunche present’; a term of contempt for: a slanderer; a cheat; an impostor; a glutton …1440
– NAIL an impostor; a cheat; one who ‘takes in’ another …1874 Eng. dial.
– OPERATOR a cheat, an impostor, a quacksalver …1611
– POT-WALLOPER (derogatory) a fool, a stupid person; also, an impostor, an upstart …1820
– QUIRK a cheat; an impostor …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAP a cheat, an impostor; a person of bad character …1848 Sc. & Ireland
– RINGER an outsider or intruder; a phoney person or thing; an impostor;  a person who attaches himself or herself to a political or other group to which he or she does not belong, or who votes in a district where he or she does not reside …1896 US
– SCALLAWAG, SCALLOWAG an impostor or intriguer, especially in politics; a corrupt politician; in U.S. Hist., a native white of the southern states who was willing to accept the terms of Reconstruction after the US Civil War (1861-5) …1864
– SCALLYWAG – an impostor or intriguer, especially in politics; a corrupt politician; in U.S. Hist., a native white of the southern states who was willing to accept the terms of Reconstruction after the US Civil War (1861-5) …1864
– SCHLENT an impostor …1920s sl.
 
IMPOSTURE – adjectives
– IMPOSTORIOUS †* having the character of an impostor or imposture; fraudulent; deceitful …1623 
– PRESTIGIATORY † practising ‘prestigiation’; juggling, conjuring; consisting of tricks, impostures, or illusions; deceptive, delusive …1588
imposture – nouns
– ABUSION † perversion of the truth; deceit, deception, imposture; also, an instance of such perversion or deception …c1386
– BILLYBLINDER a ‘blind’, an imposture …1822 Sc.
– FALSEHOOD † deception, falsification, imposture; a forgery, counterfeit …1340 obs. or arch.
– GAFF † a pretense; an imposture …1877 UK prison sl.
– HOCUS juggling, imposture …M17 sl.
– HOCUS-POCUS a juggler’s trick; thus any form of imposture, trickery …E18 sl.
– HOOK AND SNIVEY, HOOK AND SNIVVY, HOOKEM-SNIVEY, HOOKUM-SNIVEY an imposture or deceit; trickery …1781 Eng. dial. & sl.
– SCREW a dishonest trick; an imposture; a cheat …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
 
IMPOTENCE – nouns
– BREWER’S DROOP temporary impotence as a result of drinking excessive amount of alcohol, esp. beer …1970 sl., orig. Aust.
– BREWER’S GOITRE a paunch developed by drinking too much beer …1953 Aust. sl.
 
IMPOTENT – adjectives
– BEDRID worn out, decrepit, impotent …1621
– BOUND impotent, lacking in manhood …1930 Amer. dial.
– GELD † sexually impotent …c1325
– IMPUDENT impotent …E17 Brit. sl.
– IMPUISSANT weak, feeble, impotent, powerless …1629
– LIMBER-DICKED impotent …1984 Amer. sl.
– NO MONEY IN HIS PURSE impotent …19C Brit. sl.
impotent – adverbs 
– PAST IT of a man: impotent …M19 sl.
impotent – person
– APPLE-JOHN a foolish and probably impotent old man …L16 sl.
– BROKEN ARROW a malfunctioning penis; hence, an impotent male …1940s US sl.
– BUNGLER an impotent husband …L17 sl.
– DOMINE DO-LITTLE an impotent old man …L18 sl.
– DOMINI an impotent old man …L18 sl.
– DOMINI DO-LITTLE, DOMINIE DO-LITTLE an impotent old man …L18 sl.
– FLAT TIRE an impotent man; a worthless, powerless man …E20 sl.
– GALLYWOW a man destitute of the power of begetting children …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– HANDYMAN an impotent man, or one who suffers from premature ejaculation …Bk2004 Brit. sl.
– WILL-JILL a sterile or impotent person …19C Eng. dial.
impotent – verbs
– DIE IN THE FURROW to copulate without ejaculating; to become impotent while copulating ​…19C Brit. sl.
– HAVE NO MORE INK IN THE PEN to be sexually exhausted from ejaculation; to be impotent from advanced age …20C colloq.
– IMBECILE † to make imbecile, weak, or impotent; to impair, to weaken, to enfeeble, to debilitate …1593-40
– MESS WITH NATURE to lose one’s potency, esp. through excess use of narcotics or alcohol …1970s US Black sl.
 
IMPOTENTLY – adverbs
– MAUGHTLESSLY feebly, impotently …1880 Sc.
 
IMPOVERISH – person
– BEGGARER one who beggars or impoverishes …1630
impoverish – verbs
– BEGGAR to impoverish; generally used of land …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– DEAD-BROKE to impoverish …M19
– EMPOVER †* to impoverish, to make poor …1474
– ERUMNATE † to impoverish, to make poor or miserable …1692
– IMPOOR † to make poor; to impoverish …1613
– TINSEL †* to subject to loss; to impoverish …1475 Sc.
– UNCLEW to impoverish …1607
– UNCLUE to impoverish …1607
 
IMPOVERISHED – adjectives
– ASSED OUT defeated, out of luck, impoverished …1980s US Black sl.
– BANG-UP impoverished, penniless …M19 US sl.
– BEGGARED impoverished; reduced to destitution …1599
– BROKEN penniless, out of funds, impoverished, poor …M17 sl.
– DEADBEAT useless, ne’er-do-well, impoverished …L19 sl.
– DOWN TO ONE’S SEAMS absolutely impoverished …L19 US sl.
– FULL OF MONEY AS A TOAD IS OF FEATHERS, AS penniless, poor, impoverished …B1900
– GUTTED impoverished; penniless; temporarily without cash …c1820 sl.
– NOT A SIXPENCE TO SCRATCH ONE’S ARSE WITH absolutely impoverished, penniless …M19 sl.
– ON ONE’S ABE impoverished …1900s sl.
– OXY having a second-hand or dated appearance; impoverished-looking …2003 UK sl.
– SALT unlucky, in a bad state; impoverished, empty-handed, low on food …1950s W. Indies Rasta
– UNOOFY impoverished, poor …L19 sl.
– UP A TREE impoverished …M19 sl.
impoverished – person
– ALLEY RAT a particularly unpleasant, villainous, and impoverished person …1910s sl.
– DEADBEAT of people: a failure, a down-and-out, an impoverished person; a person down on their luck; a jobless and homeless person …M19 sl., orig. US
– DEAD-BROKER a down-and-out, an impoverished person …L19 Aust. sl.
– DEAD ONE a useless, unsociable, impoverished, or mean person …L19 US sl.
– DEATH’S HEAD a miserable, impoverished, emaciated person …L18 sl.
– DEATH’S HEAD UPON A MOPSTICK a miserable, impoverished, emaciated person …1794
– HARD-UP a hard-up, poor, destitute, or impoverished person …1830 colloq.
– HAVE-NOTHING one who has nothing; a poor, impoverished, or destitute person; usually in plural …1755 colloq.
– QUEER DUKE an impoverished gentleman …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
– RAG-ASS an impoverished person …1990s US Black sl.
impoverished – verbs
– APPLY THE ACID to render impoverished …1900s sl.
– FAIL UP to become impoverished; to go bankrupt …1890 Amer. dial.
– PLY THE ACID to render impoverished …1900s sl.
– PUT THE ACID ON to render impoverished …1900s sl.
– SCRATCH A BEGGAR’S ASS to be impoverished …1767 Amer. sl.
– TRY THE ACID to render impoverished …1900s sl.
 
IMPOVERISHING – nouns
– SKINNING impoverishing, exhausting …1888