Obs. [f. BEGGAR sb. + -Y1.] Beggarly, poor; mean, contemptible.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 116 a. Suche beggery wretches as had nothyng to leese. Ibid., 266 b. He passed by a beggerie litle toune.
1544. Ascham, Toxoph. (Arb.), 83. A Booke … wherin he … settes out much rifraffe … baggage and beggery ware.
1641. J. Johnson, Acad. Love, 84. [They] blow a beggery echo into the eares of their auditors.
