Possible Clues:

• Like a partner who can't spend a second apart from you
• Like the have-nots
• Suffering from poverty
• Born next to Derry's walls in poverty
• Deny failing to save energy? That would be poor
• Deprived chap briefly kept by Napoleonic marshal
• Like a cat that's always underfoot
• Requiring loads of attention
• Formerly called extremely dirty and poor
• Like an overly attached partner