• 乞食こじき

  beggar

• 乞うこう

  to beg, to ask, to request, to invite

• 乞丐こつがい

  beggar, bum

• 乞婿こいむこ

  bridegroom who is loved by his bride

• 行乞ぎょうこつ

  going on an alms round (for food), going begging (for food), going to ask for alms of food, pindacara

• 乞高評こうこうひょう

  with the author's compliments

• 乞巧奠きっこうでん

  Festival to Plead for Skills (progenitor festival of Tanabata)

• 命乞いいのちごい

  begging for one's life, pleading for one's life

• 暇乞いいとまごい

  leave-taking, (saying) goodbye

• 雨乞いあまごい

  praying for rain

• 物乞いものごい

  beggar, begging

• 袖乞いそでごい

  beggar

• 乞食坊主こじきぼうず

  Buddhist monk

• 乞い取るこいとる

  to ask for and receive

• 乞食根性こじきこんじょう

  mercenary spirit, greed, avarice, base nature

• 一夜乞食いちやこじき

  riches to rags, person turned into a beggar overnight

• 河原乞食かわらこじき

  actors, players, riverbank beggars

• 伊勢乞食いせこじき

  beggars at the Ise Grand Shrine

• 乞うご期待こうごきたい

  don't miss it, stay tuned, coming soon, look forward to it

• 乞い願わくはこいねがわくは

  I pray in earnest that, I beg that, I yearn that

• 漿を乞いて酒を得るしょうをこいてさけをうる

  to get more than one requests, to beg for water and receive wine

• 乞食を三日すればやめられぬこじきをみっかすればやめられぬ

  once a beggar, always a beggar, if one begs for three days, one cannot stop

• 慌てる乞食はもらいが少ないあわてるこじきはもらいがすくない

  slow and steady wins the race, there is luck in the last helping

• 近江泥棒伊勢乞食おうみどろぼういせこじき

  merchants from Ise and Ōmi do not waste their money (unlike Edoites), robbers from Ōmi, beggars from Ise

• 乞士こっし

  bhikkhu (fully ordained Buddhist monk)