vagabond

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He saw that girl hanging round the neck of a low vagabond--that vagabond, the vagabond who had just answered his hail.

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  1. noun A person without a permanent home who moves from place to place.
  2. noun A vagrant; a tramp.
  3. noun A wanderer; a rover.

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  • Yet in spite of the curse that he would wander the earth as a vagabond, the Lord showed him mercy - and put His mark of protection on him. —  Blog In My Own Eye
  • On their way to the Regan cottage they agree that the vagabond is a suspicious character and look about for him. —  The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
  • Also, who did the call-boying and the play-acting For he became a call-boy; and as early as '93 he became a "vagabond"--the law's ungentle term for an unlisted actor; and in '94 a "regular" and properly and officially listed member of that (in those days) lightly valued and not much respected profession Right soon thereafter he became a stockholder in two theaters, and manager of them. —  What Is Man? and Other Essays
  • Here's your eighteen dollars, Scraggsy, you lucky old vagabond--all clear profit on a neat day's work, no expense, no investment, no back-breakin' interest charges or overhead, an' sold out at your own figger Captain Scraggs's face was a study in conflicting emotions as he raked in the eighteen dollars. —  Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates
  • He was a fine specimen of the vagabond, as I conceive him. —  Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
 

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scoundrel ·  beggar ·  outcast ·  adventurer ·  drunkard ·  ruffian ·  thief ·  wretch ·  reprobate ·  robber ·  scamp ·  rogue

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vagabond:   vagabonds
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English vagabonde, from Old French vagabond, from Late Latin vagābundus, wandering, from Latin vagārī, to wander, from vagus, wandering.

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  1. Early modern English also vagabunde, vacabonde, vacabund, from Middle English vagabunde, from Old French vagabond, vacabond, French vagabond = Provencal vugabon = Spanish Portuguese vagabundo = Italian vagabondo, vagabundo = German vagabund = D. vagebond = Swedish Danish vagabond, from Late Latin vagabundus, wandering, strolling about, from Latin vagari, wander, from vagus, wandering: see vague. Cf. vagrant.
  2. from vagabond, n.
 

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