Originally Posted by Frownland

It means beggar, but they started calling those crazy Sufis whirling dervishes because they take lsd and spin around a bunch while wearing bad clothes. So he's either a Sufi (more likely) or a beggar.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.