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vagabond

English

Etymology

From Old French vagabond, from Late Latin vag?bundus, from Latin vagari (wander).

Pronunciation

  • (Canada, UK) enPR: v?g'?-b?nd, IPA(key): /?væ?.?.b?nd/

Noun

vagabond (plural vagabonds)

  1. A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
  2. One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood.
    Synonyms: vagrant, hobo; see also Thesaurus:vagabond

Related terms

  • extravagant
  • vague

Translations

Verb

vagabond (third-person singular simple present vagabonds, present participle vagabonding, simple past and past participle vagabonded)

  1. To roam, as a vagabond

Translations

Adjective

vagabond (not comparable)

  1. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
    • 1959, Jack London, The Star Rover
      Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin vag?bundus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /va.?a.b??/

Adjective

vagabond (feminine singular vagabonde, masculine plural vagabonds, feminine plural vagabondes)

  1. vagabonding

Noun

vagabond m (plural vagabonds, feminine vagabonde)

  1. vagabond

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “vagabond” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

  • vagabund

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /va?a?bu?d/

Noun

vagabond m (plural vagabond)

  1. vagabond

Related terms

  • vagabondé

Romanian

Etymology

From French vagabond.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /va.?a?bond/

Noun

vagabond m (plural vagabonzi)

  1. tramp (a homeless person)

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loafer

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?l??f?/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?lo?f?/
  • Rhymes: -??f?(r)

Etymology 1

Perhaps short for landloafer, possibly a partial translation of German Landläufer (compare dialectal German loofen (to run), and English landlouper); or connected to Middle English love, loove, loffinge, looffinge (a remnant, the rest, that which remains or lingers), from Old English l?f (remainder, residue, what is left) (more at lave), which is akin to Scots lave (the rest, remainder), Old English l?fan (to leave behind) (more at leave).

Noun

loafer (plural loafers)

  1. An idle person.
  2. A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.
Synonyms
  • (idle person): bum, bumpkin, footler, idler, lout, yob, yobbo
  • (footwear): penny loafer
  • See also Thesaurus:idler
Translations

Etymology 2

From American Spanish lobo (wolf) (/?lo?o/), reinterpreted as or conflated with loafer (idler); compare the alternative forms which reflect other re-interpretations and conflations. Doublet of lupus and wolf.

Alternative forms

  • lobo, lobo wolf
  • lofer (wolf), lover (wolf), loper (wolf)

Noun

loafer (plural loafers)

  1. (Southwestern US dialects) A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.
Usage notes
  • Often used in compound with "wolf": "loafer wolf".

Further reading

  • Robert N. Smead, Vocabulario Vaquero/Cowboy Talk: A Dictionary of Spanish Terms from the American West

Anagrams

  • Florea, florae, floræ

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