Mendicant (noun/adj)
men-dee-kant
A person who lives by begging; beggar./ Begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
1425–75; late Middle English
Example sentences
“The mendicants hun around the market square.”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)
