poor : Idioms & Phrases

• the members of a board appointed or elected to care for the relief of the poor within a township, or district.

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Land"-poor` adjective

Definitions

1. Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land. Colloq.

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• noun box for collecting alms, especially one in a church
  mite box; alms box.
  

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• noun a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
  wedge; bomber; hero; sub; hero sandwich; submarine; zep; Cuban sandwich; grinder; torpedo; hoagie; Italian sandwich; hoagy; submarine sandwich.
  

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• noun someone you feel sorry for
  wretch.
  

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• noun a person who is not very bright
  pillock; dullard; pudding head; stupe; stupid; pudden-head; stupid person; dolt.
  
  • The economy, stupid!

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• noun a law providing support for the poor
  

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• a law providing for, or regulating, the relief or support of the poor.

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• noun any plant of the genus Schizanthus having finely divided leaves and showy variegated flowers
  butterfly flower; schizanthus.
  

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• noun twining herb of Old World tropics cultivated in India for food and fodder; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos
  horse grain; horse gram; Dolichos biflorus; Macrotyloma uniflorum.
  

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• (Bot.), garlic; so called because it was thought to be an antidote to animal poison. Eng Dr. Prior.

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• noun herb with scarlet or white or purple blossoms that close at approach of rainy weather
  Anagallis arvensis; red pimpernel; scarlet pimpernel.
  

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• (Bot.), the red-flowered pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis), which opens its blossoms only in fair weather.

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• noun people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
  poor.
  
  • the urban poor need assistance

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• noun a person with few or no possessions
  have-not.
  

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• an assessment or tax, as in an English parish, for the relief or support of the poor.

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• noun a local tax for the relief of the poor
  

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• (Zoöl.), the friar bird.

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• noun someone who spells words
  speller; good speller.
  

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• noun (slang) an offensive term for White people who are impoverished
  white trash.
  

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Poor"-john` noun

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) A small European fish, similar to the cod, but of inferior quality.

   Poor-john and apple pies are all our fare. Sir J. Harrington.

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• adjective satellite lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful
  pusillanimous; unmanly.
  

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Poor"-spir`it*ed adjective

Definitions

1. Of a mean spirit; cowardly; base. -- Poor"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.

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Poor"-will` noun

Etymology

So called in imitation of its note.

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) A bird of the Western United States (Phalænoptilus Nutalli) allied to the whip-poor-will.

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Poor"-wil`lie noun

Etymology

So called in imitation of its note.

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) The bar-tailed godwit. Prov. Eng.

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• noun a broadly based stock market index
  Standard and Poor's.
  

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• noun a broadly based stock market index
  Standard and Poor's.
  

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• those who are destitute of property; the indigent; the needy. In a legal sense, those who depend on charity or maintenance by the public. "I have observed the more public provisions are made for the poor, the less they provide for themselves." Franklin.

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Whip"-poor-will` noun

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) An American bird (Antrostomus vociferus) allied to the nighthawk and goatsucker; -- so called in imitation of the peculiar notes which it utters in the evening. Written also whippowil.

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