deadbeat

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• UK: /ˈdɛdbiːt/
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From dead + beat. As an adjective, of a person, to be exhausted, first use appears c. the 1820s. During the American Civil War, it also became a derogatory adjective, in the sense of "a person that defaults on their debts or avoids responsibilities" and "sponger", "vagabond". This sense dates from c. 1863. Possibly related to good for nothing.

30 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: капнал от умора (kapnal ot umora) — exhausted, dead tired
• German: fix und fertig — exhausted, dead tired
• German: völlig erschöpft — exhausted, dead tired
• Hungarian: holtfáradt — exhausted, dead tired
• Polish: wykończony — exhausted, dead tired
• Spanish: faltón — exhausted, dead tired
• Spanish: incumplidor — exhausted, dead tired
• Armenian: ծույլ մարդ (cuyl mard) — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• Bulgarian: безделник (bezdelnik) — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• Czech: povaleč — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• Czech: flákač — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• Dutch: leegloper — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• German: Faulpelz — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• German: Gammler — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• German: Schnorrer — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• Hungarian: naplopó — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• Hungarian: semmittevő — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• Hungarian: léhűtő — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• Hungarian: pumpoló — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• Hungarian: tarháló — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• Hungarian: adósságait nem fizető ember — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• Macedonian: параспур (paraspur) — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• Polish: pasożyt — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• Portuguese: vagabundo — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• Portuguese: parasita — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• Portuguese: aproveitador — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• Russian: тунеядец (tunejadec) — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• Russian: дармоед (darmojed) — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• Spanish: incumplidor — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support
• Spanish: faltón — lazy person, depending upon financially independent people for support