Vagrant

Noun

 * 1) A person without a home or job.
 * 2) * 2002, Jeffrey J. Rowland, WIGU: Day two begins
 * Paisley: What smells like dinosaur crap?
 * Mother: Your brother wants people to think we’re vagrants.
 * Wigu: I stink.
 * 1) A wanderer.
 * Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighborhood begging for food.
 * 1)  A bird found outside its species’ usual range.

Synonyms

 * beggar
 * down-and-out
 * drifter
 * itinerant
 * tramp
 * wanderer
 * vagabond
 * See also Thesaurus:vagabond

Derived terms

 * vagrancy

Adjectives for Vagrant
scattered (pi) ; undeveloped; apprehended; arrested. adverbs blithely; gaily; jauntily; happily; carelessly; irresponsibly; suspiciously; joyously; alertly; profitably; enviably; inconveniently; selfishly; luxuriously; habitually; pleasantly; nervously; furtively; stealthily; merrily; nonchalantly; delightfully; wretchedly; uncertainly; miserably; lonesomely; preferably; hazardously; independently; innocently; harmlessly.

Thesaurus
Arab, Bowery bum, aberrant, aberrative, adrift, afloat, aimless, alternating, amorphous, arbitrary, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blighter, bo, budmash, bum, bummer, caitiff, capricious, changeable, changeful, circuitous, circumforaneous, cranky, crotchety, departing, derelict, desultory, deviable, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devil, devious, digressive, discursive, divagatory, dizzy, dogie, drifter, drifting, drunkard, eccentric, errant, erratic, excursive, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flaky, flickering, flighty, flitting, floating, fluctuating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, freakish, fugitive, gadding, gamin, gamine, giddy, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, guttersnipe, gypsy-like, gypsyish, harebrained, hobo, homeless waif, human wreck, humorsome, idler, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indirect, infirm, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, kinky, labyrinthine, landloper, landloping, lazzarone, loafer, losel, lowlife, maggoty, mauvais sujet, mazy, mean wretch, meandering, mercurial, migrational, migratory, moody, motiveless, mucker, mudlark, no-good, nomad, nomadic, notional, out-of-the-way, pauvre diable, perambulatory, peripatetic, petulant, piker, pilgarlic, planetary, poor creature, poor devil, quirky, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, rambling, ranging, restless, roaming, rounder, roving, sad case, sad sack, sauntering, scatterbrained, serpentine, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, ski bum, skid-row bum, snaky, spasmodic, spineless, stiff, straggling, stray, straying, street Arab, street urchin, strolling, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, swerving, tatterdemalion, temperamental, tennis bum, traipsing, tramp, transient, transitory, transmigratory, truant, turning, turnpiker, twisting, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undirected, undisciplined, unfixed, unpredictable, unreasonable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, urchin, vacillating, vag, vagabond, vagarious, variable, vaurien, veering, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, waif, waifs and strays, wandering, wanton, wastrel, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayfaring, wayward, whimsical, winding, wishy-washy, worthless fellow, wretch, zigzag

Etymology
From vagraunt:, from  wakerant:, wacrant:, walcrant:,  wacrant:, waucrant:, present participle of wacrer:, waucrer:, walcrer:, of  origin, from  *undefined:, frequentative form of *undefined:, from, from. Cognate with walchan:, walkan:,  walken:,  wealcan:,  gewealcan:,  valka:,  valgus:. More at.

Translations

 * Dutch: vagebond,
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 * French: erratique