n.a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
同义词：beggarymendicancy
begging例句
Question-Begging in Non-Cumulative Systems Begging for control: when are offspring solicitation behaviours honest? Begging and provisioning in broods of asynchronously-hatched yellow-headed blackbird nestlings Begging, food provisioning, and nestling competition in great tit broods infested with ectoparasites Nest predation and the evolution of nestling begging calls. Nestling mouth colour: ecological correlates of a begging signal. Corticosterone facilitates begging and affects resource allocation in the black-legged kittiwake Experimental evidence that nestling begging behaviour incurs a cost due to nest predation Nestling cuckoos, Cuculus canorus, exploit hosts with begging calls that mimic a brood Differential Begging and Locomotory Behaviour by Early and Late Hatched Nestlings Affecting the Distribution of Food in Asynchronous...
