different between beachcomber vs strandloper

English

Alternative forms

• beach-comber

Etymology

From beach +? comber.

Noun

beachcomber (plural beachcombers)

1. (nautical) A seaman who is not prepared to work but hangs around port areas living off the charity of others.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 46

     The society of beach-combers always repays the small pains you need be at to enjoy it. They are easy of approach and affable in conversation.

2. Any loafer around a waterfront.
3. A person who collects marine salvage at the coast.
4. A long rolling wave of the sea.

Translations

Further reading

• “beachcomber”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans strandloper, from Dutch strandloper.

Noun

strandloper (plural strandlopers)

1. (South Africa) beachcomber

Anagrams

• Portlanders

Dutch

Alternative forms

• strandlooper (obsolete)

Etymology

Compound of strand +? loper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?str?nt?lo?.p?r/
• Hyphenation: strand?lo?per

Noun

strandloper m (plural strandlopers, diminutive strandlopertje n)

1. A sandpiper, used of certain waders of the family Scolopacidae, especially of the genus Calidris. [from 18th c.]
2. (dated) A beachcomber.

   Synonyms: jutter, strandjutter

3. (dated, rare) A beach walker, someone who walks on the beach.
   • 1949, F. Schmidt-Degener, Het blijvend beeld der Hollandse kunst, J. M. Meulenhoff (publ.), page 88.

Derived terms

• bonte strandloper
• paarse strandloper

Descendants

• Afrikaans: strandloper
  • ? English: strandloper