a fighting of beggars
- Subject
- beggar (beggars)
- Category
- People → Occupations & roles
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- historical-source
- Also spelled
- Fyghtynge (1486)
Collective noun
fighting
Also spelled Fyghtynge (1486)
What do you call a group of beggars?
a fighting of beggars
- Used for
- 1 subject
- Categories
- People
- Subcategories
- Occupations & roles
- Type
- Specific
- Best confidence
- high
Definition
- Listed in the Book of Saint Albans (1486) as “a Fyghtynge of beggers”.
Other senses of the word: fighting on Wiktionary
Usage as a collective noun
Related words
No other collective nouns recorded for these subjects.