hobon.

Brit.

/ˈhəʊbəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈhoʊˌboʊ/

Originally Western U.S.

‘An idle shiftless wandering workman, ranking scarcely above the tramp’ (Funk).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp

harlot?c1225

raikera1400

vacabond1404

vagrant1444

gangrela1450

briber?c1475

palliard1484

vagabondc1485

rogue1489

wavenger1493

hermit1495

gaberlunzie1508

knight of the field1508

loiterer1530

straggler1530

runagate1534

ruffler1535

hedge-creeper1548

Abraham man1567

cursitor1567

runner1567

walker1567

tinker1575

traveller1598

Tartar1602

stravagant1606

wagand1614

Circumcellion1623

meechera1625

hedge-bird1631

gaberlunzie man1649

tramp1664

stroller1681

jockey1685

bird of passage1717

randy1724

tramper1760

stalko1804

vagabondager1813

rintherout1814

piker1838

pikey1838

beachcomber1840

roadster1851

vagabondizer1860

roustabout1862

bum1864

migratory1866

potter1867

sundowner1868

vag1868

walkabout1872

transient1877

Murrumbidgee whaler1878

rouster1882

run-the-hedge1882

whaler1883

shaughraun1884

heather-cat1886

hobo1889

tussocker1889

gay cat1893

overlander1898

stake-man1899

stiff1899

bindle-stiff1900

dingbat1902

stew-bum1902

tired Tim (also Timothy)1906

skipper1925

Strandlooper1927

knight of the road1928

hobohemian1936

plain turkey1955

scrub turkey1955

derro1963

jakey1988

crusty1990

1889 Ellensburgh (Washington) Capital 28 Nov. 2/2 The tramp has changed his name, or rather had it changed for him, and now he is a ‘Hobo’.

1891 ‘J. Flynt’ in Contemp. Rev. Aug. The tramp's name for himself and his fellows is Hobo, plural Hoboes.

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Dec. 3/3 They will be vagrants on the streets and hobos of the night.

1896 Pop. Sci. Jrnl. 50 254 The tramp..can scarcely be distinguished from the dyed-in-the wool hoboe.

1918 Let. in F. A. Pottle Stretchers (1929) x. 295 We had been so long separated from our organization that we had pretty thoroughly acquired a hobo frame of mind.

1925 J. Buchan John Macnab vii. 157 The gillies have..gathered in some wretched hobo they found looking at the river.

1928 Punch 15 Feb. 196/1 Few dramatic critics..could display so adequate a working knowledge of..the ways of hobos in the United States.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren iii. 55 Gipsies, usually known as ‘gyppoes’ or ‘hoboes’.

1963 H. Garner in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 40 Harvest hands are like hobos, their friendships as casual as the mating of a pair of flies.

Derivatives

ˈhobo v. (intransitive and quasi-transitive with way), to act the hobo; to journey or travel as a tramp; also with it.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander > as a vagabond or tramp

rogue1570

vagabonda1586

vagabondize1794

tramp1846

hobo1905

1905 U. Sinclair Jungle xxv, in Appeal to Reason 7 Oct. 2/3 Then he explained how he had spent the last summer, ‘hoboing it’, as the phrase was.

1914 J. London Let. 28 July (1966) 426 You can scarcely find a tramp today..who has not hoboed with me.

1923 H. L. Foster Beachcomber in Orient ix. 183 Having hoboed my way thus far, I could afford to travel as a passenger the rest of the way.

1928 Daily Mail 9 Aug. 11/4 I sort of hoboed my way out to San Francisco.

1949 Landfall 3 136 Have I..hoboed through fifteen of these United States only to be jailed like a common criminal?

1972 Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 78/3 He and his brother were hoboing it in Missouri.

ˈhobodom n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > world of

tinkerdom1834

trampdom1891

Vagabondia1894

hobohemia1923

hobodom1930

1930 Publishers' Weekly 31 May 3736/2 Any hobo temporarily sober can find a publisher to place on the market with great éclat an epic of Hobodom, provided that there is sufficient of the hobo atmosphere.

ˈhoboism n. the realm or world of the hobo.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage

loitering1530

vacabuncy1535

vagabondry1547

vagabuncy1549

roguing1577

roguery1594

vagabondinga1628

vagrancy1706

vagrance1751

vagabondizing1755

vagabondage1813

vagabondism1822

vag1859

beachcombing1867

trampism1893

hoboism1930

1930 19th Cent. June 849 These were the high days of American hoboism.

1966 Punch 4 May 671/1 They give us a fleeting glimpse into their world of pop, incipient careers, hoboism and love.

hoboˈette n. an occasional term for a female hobo.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > female

hoboette1918

bag lady1972

shopping-bag lady1975

1918 Dial. Notes 5 5 Hoboettes of America.

1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route xv. 172 He can never understand why the hobos want to keep out the women, whom he labels..‘the hoboettes’.

1967 K. Allsop Hard Travellin' xvii. 206 Typical of this idiom is Benson's Hoboes of America pamphlet in which he loudly warns boys—and ‘hoboettes’ too.

Draft additions March 2012

hobo bag n. originally U.S. (a) a bundle used to carry a person's belongings, made from a square of fabric with the corners tied together, typically attached to the end of a stick and esp. associated with hobos; (b) (originally) a pouch-like woman's handbag resembling such a bundle, sometimes attached to a rod-like handle; (now) a large shoulder bag having a soft body that forms a characteristic curve between the two ends of the strap.

ΚΠ

1928 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 23 Dec. ii. 12/5 The scout neckerchief may be used: 1. As an international Morse signal flag... 27. As a ‘hobo’ bag.

1934 Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 2 July 9/6 The hobo bag, for the beach, is a faithful reproduction of the traveling equipment of the gentlemen of the side-door pullmans... Gay young things like to sling the stick over their shoulder in the approved hobo fashion.

1943 Huntington (Pa.) Daily News 1 May 6/1 The hobo bag, a huge affair of leather or fabrics gathered by its four corners as a hobo gathers his handkerchief, is very new-looking and big enough for ration books and all the plunder women accumulate.

1963 Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard 20 July 18 (advt.) The newest accessory a girl just can't do without the swingy, bottomless hobo bag.

1996 Tulsa (Oklahoma) World (Nexis) 7 Nov. d1 After more than two decades of stuffing the necessities of everyday life into a bag, [and] slinging it over their shoulders,..women are trading in their hobo bags for smaller, shaped handbags.

2006 J. Coburn Tales from Crib (2008) viii. 63 Anjoli loves to talk about her ‘running away’ to Greenwich Village, but she didn't exactly tie a hobo bag to a stick and hitchhike through the tunnel.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hobo
释义	hobon. Brit. /ˈhəʊbəʊ/, U.S. /ˈhoʊˌboʊ/ Originally Western U.S. ‘An idle shiftless wandering workman, ranking scarcely above the tramp’ (Funk). ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp harlot?c1225 raikera1400 vacabond1404 vagrant1444 gangrela1450 briber?c1475 palliard1484 vagabondc1485 rogue1489 wavenger1493 hermit1495 gaberlunzie1508 knight of the field1508 loiterer1530 straggler1530 runagate1534 ruffler1535 hedge-creeper1548 Abraham man1567 cursitor1567 runner1567 walker1567 tinker1575 traveller1598 Tartar1602 stravagant1606 wagand1614 Circumcellion1623 meechera1625 hedge-bird1631 gaberlunzie man1649 tramp1664 stroller1681 jockey1685 bird of passage1717 randy1724 tramper1760 stalko1804 vagabondager1813 rintherout1814 piker1838 pikey1838 beachcomber1840 roadster1851 vagabondizer1860 roustabout1862 bum1864 migratory1866 potter1867 sundowner1868 vag1868 walkabout1872 transient1877 Murrumbidgee whaler1878 rouster1882 run-the-hedge1882 whaler1883 shaughraun1884 heather-cat1886 hobo1889 tussocker1889 gay cat1893 overlander1898 stake-man1899 stiff1899 bindle-stiff1900 dingbat1902 stew-bum1902 tired Tim (also Timothy)1906 skipper1925 Strandlooper1927 knight of the road1928 hobohemian1936 plain turkey1955 scrub turkey1955 derro1963 jakey1988 crusty1990 1889 Ellensburgh (Washington) Capital 28 Nov. 2/2 The tramp has changed his name, or rather had it changed for him, and now he is a ‘Hobo’. 1891 ‘J. Flynt’ in Contemp. Rev. Aug. The tramp's name for himself and his fellows is Hobo, plural Hoboes. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Dec. 3/3 They will be vagrants on the streets and hobos of the night. 1896 Pop. Sci. Jrnl. 50 254 The tramp..can scarcely be distinguished from the dyed-in-the wool hoboe. 1918 Let. in F. A. Pottle Stretchers (1929) x. 295 We had been so long separated from our organization that we had pretty thoroughly acquired a hobo frame of mind. 1925 J. Buchan John Macnab vii. 157 The gillies have..gathered in some wretched hobo they found looking at the river. 1928 Punch 15 Feb. 196/1 Few dramatic critics..could display so adequate a working knowledge of..the ways of hobos in the United States. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren iii. 55 Gipsies, usually known as ‘gyppoes’ or ‘hoboes’. 1963 H. Garner in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 40 Harvest hands are like hobos, their friendships as casual as the mating of a pair of flies. Derivatives ˈhobo v. (intransitive and quasi-transitive with way), to act the hobo; to journey or travel as a tramp; also with it. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander > as a vagabond or tramp rogue1570 vagabonda1586 vagabondize1794 tramp1846 hobo1905 1905 U. Sinclair Jungle xxv, in Appeal to Reason 7 Oct. 2/3 Then he explained how he had spent the last summer, ‘hoboing it’, as the phrase was. 1914 J. London Let. 28 July (1966) 426 You can scarcely find a tramp today..who has not hoboed with me. 1923 H. L. Foster Beachcomber in Orient ix. 183 Having hoboed my way thus far, I could afford to travel as a passenger the rest of the way. 1928 Daily Mail 9 Aug. 11/4 I sort of hoboed my way out to San Francisco. 1949 Landfall 3 136 Have I..hoboed through fifteen of these United States only to be jailed like a common criminal? 1972 Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 78/3 He and his brother were hoboing it in Missouri. ˈhobodom n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > world of tinkerdom1834 trampdom1891 Vagabondia1894 hobohemia1923 hobodom1930 1930 Publishers' Weekly 31 May 3736/2 Any hobo temporarily sober can find a publisher to place on the market with great éclat an epic of Hobodom, provided that there is sufficient of the hobo atmosphere. ˈhoboism n. the realm or world of the hobo. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage loitering1530 vacabuncy1535 vagabondry1547 vagabuncy1549 roguing1577 roguery1594 vagabondinga1628 vagrancy1706 vagrance1751 vagabondizing1755 vagabondage1813 vagabondism1822 vag1859 beachcombing1867 trampism1893 hoboism1930 1930 19th Cent. June 849 These were the high days of American hoboism. 1966 Punch 4 May 671/1 They give us a fleeting glimpse into their world of pop, incipient careers, hoboism and love. hoboˈette n. an occasional term for a female hobo. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > female hoboette1918 bag lady1972 shopping-bag lady1975 1918 Dial. Notes 5 5 Hoboettes of America. 1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route xv. 172 He can never understand why the hobos want to keep out the women, whom he labels..‘the hoboettes’. 1967 K. Allsop Hard Travellin' xvii. 206 Typical of this idiom is Benson's Hoboes of America pamphlet in which he loudly warns boys—and ‘hoboettes’ too. Draft additions March 2012 hobo bag n. originally U.S. (a) a bundle used to carry a person's belongings, made from a square of fabric with the corners tied together, typically attached to the end of a stick and esp. associated with hobos; (b) (originally) a pouch-like woman's handbag resembling such a bundle, sometimes attached to a rod-like handle; (now) a large shoulder bag having a soft body that forms a characteristic curve between the two ends of the strap. ΚΠ 1928 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 23 Dec. ii. 12/5 The scout neckerchief may be used: 1. As an international Morse signal flag... 27. As a ‘hobo’ bag. 1934 Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 2 July 9/6 The hobo bag, for the beach, is a faithful reproduction of the traveling equipment of the gentlemen of the side-door pullmans... Gay young things like to sling the stick over their shoulder in the approved hobo fashion. 1943 Huntington (Pa.) Daily News 1 May 6/1 The hobo bag, a huge affair of leather or fabrics gathered by its four corners as a hobo gathers his handkerchief, is very new-looking and big enough for ration books and all the plunder women accumulate. 1963 Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard 20 July 18 (advt.) The newest accessory a girl just can't do without the swingy, bottomless hobo bag. 1996 Tulsa (Oklahoma) World (Nexis) 7 Nov. d1 After more than two decades of stuffing the necessities of everyday life into a bag, [and] slinging it over their shoulders,..women are trading in their hobo bags for smaller, shaped handbags. 2006 J. Coburn Tales from Crib (2008) viii. 63 Anjoli loves to talk about her ‘running away’ to Greenwich Village, but she didn't exactly tie a hobo bag to a stick and hitchhike through the tunnel. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1889
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