Reverse Dictionary: POVERTY

ADJECTIVES
► ANGISH poverty-stricken → 19C Ireland
► MANGY beggarly, lousy, squalid, poverty-stricken, shabby → 1538
► PO-JO drab; dreary; poverty-stricken → 1950 Amer. dial.
► POORFUL poor, poverty-stricken → 1372 obs.
► QUISBY bankrupt, poverty-stricken → 1853 sl.
ֽ► SARKLESS poverty-stricken → 1773 Sc. & Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► ANGISH poverty → 19C Ireland
► ATTACK OF THE MONTH’S END the poverty that comes after one’s monthly wages have run out → L19 sl.
► ATTACK OF THE WEEK’S END the poverty that comes after one’s weekly wages have run out → L19 sl.
► BEGGARISM professional beggary; extreme poverty → 1636
► BEGGARTY the state or condition of a beggar; extreme poverty → c1505 Sc. obs.
► BEGGINGNESS † the condition of a beggar, poverty, beggary → 1382
► CLOGS TO CLOGS IN THREE GENERATIONS the return of a family to poverty after one generation of prosperity
► DEFAULT lack of food or other necessaries; want, poverty → c1290 obs.
► EGENCY neediness, poverty → 1600 obs.
► EGESTUOSITY meagreness, poverty → 1656 obs.
► HARD SLEDDIN’ poverty, hardship, misery → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► JEJUNENESS emptiness of interest or intellectually satisfying quality; baldness, meagreness, poverty → 1655
► JEJUNITY emptiness of interest or intellectually satisfying quality; baldness, meagreness, poverty → 1623
► LAST OF PEA-TIME the time when peas have almost ceased bearing; hence, a state of decline, exhaustion, or poverty → 1834 Amer. dial.
► LEAN LICKING OF THIBLES poverty, penury, a state verging on starvation → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NEEDAM ► NEEDHAM need, poverty, beggary → 1573 obs.
► NEEDHAM’S CROSS a state of great poverty → 1592 sl.
► NEEDHAM’S SHORE a state of great poverty → 1592 sl.
► ORCOST want of means, penury, indigence, poverty → a1225 obs.
► PENIAPHOBIA an abnormal fear of poverty → 1991 (Bk.)
► PENURY extremely poverty, destitution → 1400
► POORHEAD a being poor; poverty → 1340 obs.
► POORTITH a being poor; poverty → a1513 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCANT poverty → 1823 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TAP CITY a state of poverty → 1930s sl.
► TAPSVILLE a state of poverty → 1930s sl.
► WAEDLE  poverty → c888 obs.
► WANDRETH misery, distress, hardship; adversity, poverty → c1175 obs.
► WANE need, want, poverty → a1100 obs.
► WANSPEED ill-success; adversity, poverty → c893 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ANGISHORE a poverty-stricken person → 1894 Ireland

PHRASES
► ON ONE’S BEAM ENDS in acute distress or poverty → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► ON ONE’S UPPERS reduced to poverty or want → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► ON THE HIGH-ROAD TO NEEDHAM heading towards to poverty → 1670 sl.

VERBS
► BE IN BAD BREAD to be in a state of difficulty, danger, poverty, etc. → 1898 Sc.
► CRAWL UNDER THE DOG’S BELLY to live in poverty → 1935 Amer. dial.
► CRY POOR-MOUTH to plead poverty → 1904 colloq.
► GET CURED to be rescued from poverty; to regain financial solvency → 1970 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► LICK A THIVEL to suffer poverty, to verge on starvation → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LIVE PERQUEER to be short of money; to live in poverty → 1568 obs.
► MAKE A POOR MOUTH to plead or pretend poverty; to endeavour to excite compassion → 1822 Amer.
► NIGGER IT to live in poverty → 1857 US sl., offensive
► PLAY POOR MOUTH to plead poverty → 2001 colloq.
► POOR-MOUTH to claim to be poor; to make protestations of poverty, lack of funds, etc. → 1930 colloq.
► PUT UP A POOR MOUTH to plead poverty → 1868 colloq.
► SIT ON THE PENNILESS BENCH to be poverty-stricken → L16 colloq.
► TALK POOR MOUTH to plead poverty; to complain, usually in an exaggerated way, of poverty or other misfortune → 1940 colloq.