begging letter

begging letter

English

Noun

begging letter (plural begging letters)

1. A letter in which the writer asks for money.
   • 1850, Charles Dickens, "The Begging-Letter Writer", in Household Words, May 1850

     I, the writer of this paper, have been, for some time, a chosen receiver of Begging Letters.

Translations

letter asking for money

Norwegian: Bokmål: tiggerbrev n Nynorsk: tiggarbrev n Swedish: tiggarbrev n

References

• “begging letter”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.