单词 | scatterling |
释义 | scatterlingn. A wandering or vagabond person; a vagrant. Also transferred. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wanderer striker1393 roamerc1400 wandererc1440 whirlerc1440 gangrela1450 fluttererc1450 straggler1530 gadlinga1542 ranger1560 rover1568 fugitive1570 rangler1575 fleeter1581 extravagant1583 scatterling1590 vagranta1592 rambler1624 erratic1669 stravaiger1821 multivagant1895 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. Y5 Yet oft annoyd with sondry bordragings. Of neighbour Scots, and forrein Scatterlings. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. ix. 510/2 But God was no better pleased with these, then with the other scatterlings at Lincolne. 1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 16 517 From mossy hillock, and tremulous stalk, We gather'd the lovely scatterlings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1590 |
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