Vagabond
Definition of vagabond:
part of speech: adjective
Wandering: having no settled home: driven to and fro: unsettled.
part of speech: adjective
Wandering; without fixed habitation.
part of speech: noun
One who wanders without any settled habitation: a wandering, idle fellow.
part of speech: adjective
Wandering about without fixed dwelling place; roaming; idle and vicious.
part of speech: noun
One who roams about with no permanent abode; especially, an idle fellow without honest means of support; a vagrant or tramp; colloquially, a rascal or worthless fellow.
part of speech: noun
A vagrant.
Usage examples for vagabond:
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" Larsen, you old vagabond I believe you're right; and if that pencil sharpener fellow doesn't give his agency to Barlow"- I grinned as I said this-" I'll- I'll turn him down with a smile!"
"Dawson Black: Retail Merchant", Harold Whitehead. -
I fancy she had been fond of that vagabond husband of hers: an enormous wedding- ring encircled her finger, and that, too, was swathed in black.
"The Old Man in the Corner", Baroness Orczy. -
He stuck his hands in his pockets, and felt vagabond like and reckless.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith", George Meredith. -
Why, even that vagabond boy was so shocked, that he went all the way to Elbury that very night for it.
"Friarswood Post-Office", Charlotte M. Yonge.