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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A perverted spelling and pronunciation of vagrant, ascribed as a blunder to Dogberry in “Much Ado about Nothing,” and with allusion to this occasionally used by modern writers.

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Examples

  • She was the vagrom-minded wife of a prosperous lawyer who was absorbed in his business and in himself.

    The Titan 2004

  • And now units of this vagrom and unstable street throng, which was forever shifting and changing about them, seemed to sense the psychologic error of all this in so far as these children were concerned, for they would nudge one another, the more sophisticated and indifferent lifting an eyebrow and smiling contemptuously, the more sympathetic or experienced commenting on the useless presence of these children.

    An American Tragedy 2004

  • Purdy, some vagrom fancy quickened in him, either by the voice, which was not unrefined, or by the stealthiness of the approach,

    Australia Felix 2003

  • In the first place, Slang is universal, whilst Cant is restricted in usage to certain classes of the community: thieves, vagrom men, and -- well, their associates.

    Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

  • All grades of "vagrom men," with their frauds and shifts, are passed in review, and when Copland asks about their "bousy" speech, the porter entertains him with these lines.

    Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

  • This is your charge; you shall comprehend all vagrom men.

    The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams

  • Dear, brave Cherry-Cheeks sent it home by the hands of a vagrom pedlar, laboriously and exactly writing on the package the inscription she found on the fly leaf:

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • Then round the corner came a vagrom man, wheeling flowers in a barrow.

    Something New 1928

  • They smell of cabbage and are much prowled over by vagrom cats.

    Jill the Reckless 1928

  • William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) 516You shall comprehend all vagrom men.

    Quotations 1919

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