Reverse Dictionary: VAGABOND

ADJECTIVES
1377 ► LAND-LEAPING vagabond → obs.
1538 ► GANGREL vagabond, vagrant → arch. & Eng. dial.
1576 ► VAGABONDICAL roaming, wandering, vagabondish
1577 ► LAND-LOPING → LAND-LOUPING wandering, roving, vagabond → obs. exc. Sc.
1599 ► VAGROM vagrant, vagabond, wandering
1614 ► LEAP-LAND vagabond → obs.
1615 ► VAGABONDIAL roaming, wandering, vagabondish → obs.
1661 ► VAGABONDIOUS vagabond, vagrant → obs.
1788 ► WAFF of persons: vagabond-like, disreputable, worthless in character, good-for-nothing → Sc.
1815 ► GANG-THERE-OUT homeless, vagabond → Sc.
1901 ► SCOOR-THE-KINTRY roving, vagabond → Sc. 

NOUNS
1535 ► VACABUNCY vagabondage → obs.
1547 ► VAGABONDRY vagabondage; life or conduct characteristic of a vagabond → obs.
1549 ► VAGABUNCY vagabondage → obs.

NOUNS, PERSON
1225 ► HARLOT a vagabond, a vagrant; a beggar, a rogue, a rascal, a villain, a low fellow, a knave → obs.
1300 ► GEDLING a term of contempt or abuse; a worthless person; a rogue; an idle vagabond
1300 ► JAVEL a low or worthless fellow; a rascal, a vagabond; a wandering, dirty fellow; a tramp → obs.
1377 ► LAND-LEAPER a land-loper → obs.
1404 ► VACABOND a person having no settled means of living or no fixed home; a vagabond → obs.
1450 ► GANGAREL → GANGERAL → GANGEREL → GANGERIL → GANGERILL → GANGREL → GANGRELL → GANGRIL → GANGRILL a wandering beggar; a vagrant, a vagabond, tramp; a wanderer, a walker; a peddler
1484 ► PALLART → PALLIARD → PALLYARD a professional beggar or vagabond (who sleeps on the straw in barns and outhouses); hence, a low or dissolute knave; a lewd fellow, a lecher, a debauchee → obs.
1485 ► ​VAGABOND one who has no fixed abode or home, and who wanders about from place to place; specifically, one who does this without regular occupation or obvious means of support; an itinerant beggar, idle loafer, or tramp; a vagrant
1500 ► HALLAN-SHAKER a beggar who stands shaking the ‘hallan’; a vagabond, a sturdy beggar; a knave, a rascal → Sc.
1500 ► LAND-LOPER → LAND-LOUPER one who roams about the country idly or to escape the law; a vagrant, a roving vagabond, an adventurer, a scamp → chiefly Sc.
1509 ► ABBEY-LOON an idler; a vagabond; orig. a lazy monk or hanger-on to a religious house → sl.
1509 ► ABBEY-LUBBER an idler, a vagabond; orig. (prior to the Reformation), a lazy monk or hanger-on to a religious house → sl.
1542 ► GADLING a wanderer, a wayfarer, a vagabond → obs.
1557 ► WANDREL a vagabond → obs.
1561 ► ABRAHAM-MAN → ABRAM-MAN one of a set of vagabonds who wandered about the country soon after the dissolution of the religious houses; the provision of the poor in those places being cut off, and no other substituted
1561 ► TINKER a vagabond, a tramp; a reputed thief → obs.
1562 ► IRISH TOYLE a travelling vagabond who posed as a seller of haberdashery in order to commit robberies as he moved from town to town; usually plural → UK criminals’ sl.  
1590 ► VAGRANT one who wanders or roams about; a person who leads a wandering life; a rover; a wandering rogue, a strolling vagabond
1592 ► STRAVAGANT a vagrant, a vagabond, a tramp → obs.
1596 ► RAIKER a stroller; a vagabond → obs.
1598 ► TARTAR a strolling vagabond, a tramp, a thief, beggar → cant obs.
1599 ► VAGROM a vagrant, a vagabond, a tramp
1608 ► TARTARIAN a thief; a noisy blustering villain; a strolling vagabond; a sharper → cant
1609 ► RAGABASH → RAGABRASH → RAGGABRASH an idle, worthless, or disreputable fellow; a low rascal; an idle vagabond; a scoundrel; a ragamuffin → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1609 ► TAG-RAG a pitiful, ragged fellow; a slovenly, lazy or dirty fellow; a mean person; a vagabond
1614 ► WAGAND a vagrant, a vagabond, a tramp → obs.
1684 ► TRANTRELL → TANTRIL → TRANTRILL an idle person, esp. a girl; a vagrant, a vagabond; a gypsy → Eng. dial.
1690 ► RAPPAREE an Irish pikeman or irregular soldier, of the kind prominent during the war of 1688-92; hence, an Irish bandit, robber, plunderer, or freebooter; any ruffianly vagabond
1696 ► STROLLER a vagabond, itinerant, man of no settled abode; a gypsy, beggar, peddler, hawker, etc. → sl.
1699 ► RABSCALLION → RAPSCALLION a rascal, a knave, a rogue; a vagabond, a scamp; a worthless wretch
1700 ► GETLING a child, a brat; also, a fellow, somewhat depreciative, as a knave, a vagabond  → Sc. 
1700 ► SHAG-BAG a poor, shabby or worthless fellow; an idle, ragged vagabond → colloq.
1701 ► EGYPTIAN a gypsy, a vagabond → Sc. obs.
1733 ► RAMSCALLION a worthless wretch; a rascal; a wild, reckless fellow; a vagabond; a ne’er-do-well → chiefly Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1742 ► HELLENSHAKER a ragged fellow; a vagabond or beggar; a knave, a rascal → Sc.
1785 ► RAFF a low, disorderly, idle person; a vulgar worthless person; a dissolute vagabond; a disreputable person
1786 ► TINKLER’S-GIPSY a wandering vagabond, a gypsy → Sc.
E19.. ► BIRD OF THE NIGHT a wandering vagabond → sl.
E19.. ► NIGHTBIRD a wandering vagabond → sl.
E19.. ► NIGHTFOWL a wandering vagabond → sl.
1808 ► WAFF a waif, a vagabond, a vagrant → Sc.
1808 ► WAFFIE a loafer, an idler, a vagrant, a vagabond; a worthless person, a rascal; one addicted to idleness or low,  immoral company → Sc.
1808 ► WAFFLE a worthless person; a vagabond → Sc.
1808 ► WAUFIE a worthless person; a vagabond → Sc.
1809 ► BAGGABONE a vagabond → Eng. dial.
1813 ► VAGABONDAGER one who practices vagabondage (idle or unconventional wandering or travelling, vagabondism); a vagabond, a tramp
1818 ► WAFFY a person of worthless character; a vagabond → Sc. (Bk.)
1824 ► TINKLER a tinker, esp. a travelling tinker; a gypsy, a vagabond → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1825 ► NIGHT-HAWK a person who roams about by night; a vagabond → Sc. 
1825 ► WAFFINGER a vagabond, a worthless, good-for-nothing person; a ne’er-do-well → Sc.
1825 ► WHIFFINGER a vagabond, a worthless ne’er-do-well → Sc.
1828 ► SHACK a tramp; a bum; a vagabond; a good-for-nothing; a shiftless fellow → Amer. dial.
1833 ► VAIG a wanderer; a vagabond; an idle person → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1841 ► SILVER-BEGGAR a vagabond who travels through the country with ‘briefs’ containing false statements of losses by fire, shipwrecks, accidents, etc. → sl.
1842 ► VAGABONE a vagabond → Sc. & Eng. dial
1850 ► WALKER an itinerant beggar, vagrant, vagabond, or tramp → Eng. dial.
1855 ► TANTREL → TANTRELL an idle, unsettled person, who will not fix to any employment; a desultory wanderer or vagabond → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1857 ► TINK a tinker; a disreputable vagabond → Sc.
1859 ► VAG a vagabond, a vagrant, a tramp; a homeless person → Aust. & Amer. sl.
1860 ► VAGABONDIZER one who lives in the manner of a vagabond
1866 ► RAAG an idle lounging person; a low, worthless person; a vagabond; a rake → Sc. (Bk.)
1866 ► RACKER a vagabond → Irish
1866 ► RAKER a vagabond → Sc.
1866 ► RAMSCULLION an offensively dirty person; a worthless wretch; a rascal; a wild, reckless fellow; a vagabond, a vagrant; a ne’er-do-well → Sc. obs.
1874 ► FAA a gypsy or a vagabond → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1875 ► SWAGMAN a tramp, hobo, or vagabond → Aust.
1878 ► TAGGELT a ragged, dirty person; a vagabond; an idle good-for-nothing or disreputable person; a rascal, scamp → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1878 ► TAISTREL → TAISTRIL → TAISTRILL a person of vagabond life → Eng. & Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1878 ► WAISTREL a person of vagabond life; an idle wanderer → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1884 ► URNABOUT an itinerant, a vagabond, a tramp → Eng. dial. 
1886 ► HEATHER-CAT a vagabond, a tramp
1888 ► GAE-THROUGH-LAND a wanderer; a vagabond or vagrant; a pilgrim; an exile → Sc. (Bk.)
1888 ► SCAMP a street-walking vagabond of the lowest order → sl. (Bk.)
1891 ► BANG-BEGGAR a term of reproach; a vagabond → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1901 ► SCOUR-THE-COUNTRY a vagrant, a vagabond → Sc.
1902 ► TINKER WOMAN a term of contempt for a woman, a vagabond → Eng. dial.
1904 ► RIBLAS a vagabond → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► STRAVAIGER a vagabond → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 ► RAFFLE a low fellow; an idle vagabond → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► RAGGARD a wicked and abandoned wretch; a rough and ragged vagabond → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► RAGGIL a rascal, a scoundrel; a worthless vagabond; a careless or mischievous person → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► TAGIT a ragged, dirty person; a vagabond; an idle good-for-nothing or disreputable person; a rascal, scamp → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► TAGSTER a vagabond → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► WAFFIPOKE a vagabond; a worthless, good-for-nothing person → Sc. (Bk.)
1909 ► VAGRAL a vagrant, a vagabond → Sc.
1914 ► VAGABONES a vagabond → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1918 ► DINGBAT a vagabond, a tramp, a bum, a worthless person → US tramps’ sl.
1927 ► DINGER a vagabond, a tramp, a bum, a worthless person → Amer. dial.

VERBS
1611 ► VAGABONDIZE to live, wander, or go about as, or in the manner of, a vagabond; to roam or travel in a free, idle, unconstrained, or unconventional manner; to play the vagabond
1847 ► SCAFE to lead a roving, vagabond life → Eng. dial.
1859 ► VAG to treat or deal with one as a vagabond or vagrant → US sl.