landlouper
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch landloper (literally “land-runner”). Merged with native English landleaper; equivalent to land + leaper.
Noun
landlouper (plural landloupers)
- (archaic) A vagabond; a vagrant.
- Synonym: landleaper
- 1856, John Lothrop Moltey, The Rise of the Dutch Republic, page 594:
- Bands of landloupers had been employed […]
Related terms
Translations
vagabond — see vagabond
References
- “landlouper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.