Reverse Dictionary: VAGRANT

ADJECTIVES
1490 ► WALKING leading a wandering life, vagrant, strolling → obs.
1538 ► GANGREL vagabond, vagrant → arch. & Eng. dial.
1599 ► VAGROM vagrant, vagabond, wandering
1604 ► EXTRAVAGANT wandering out of bounds; straying, roaming, vagrant → obs.
1619 ► VAGRATE vagrant, wandering; nomadic → obs.
1650 ► CIRCUMFORANEOUS wandering from place to place, as from market to market or house to house; strolling about, vagrant → obs.
1660 ► VAGOUS vagrant or vague; departing from or exceeding just or ordinary bounds; irregular, inordinate; unsettled, wandering → obs.
1661 ► VAGABONDIOUS vagabond, vagrant → obs.
1746 ► WAFF of persons: vagrant, wandering, homeless, footloose → Sc.
1795 ► VAGRARIOUS vagrant, wandering → obs.
1815 ► GANG-THERE-OUT vagabond, vagrant → Sc. obs.
1871 ► BUMMERISH reminiscent of the way a vagrant or loafer behaves → obs.
1880 ► VAIGISH roaming, vagrant → Sc.
1899 ► VAGRAL vagrant, wandering → Sc.

NOUNS
1616 ► EXTRAVAGANCY a wandering beyond bounds or out of one’s course; vagrancy → obs.
1706 ► CANT the secret speech or jargon of the vagrant classes, gypsies, thieves, beggars, etc; hence, contemptuously, the peculiar phraseology of a particular class or subject
1851 ► THE MONKERY tramps or other vagrants collectively → tramps’ sl.
1859 ► VAG vagrancy; a charge of vagrancy → Aust. & Amer. sl.
1892 ► MATILDA a vagrant’s pack → Aust. sl.
1900 ► WAGGA a vagrant’s improvised covering, esp. of sacking → Aust. sl.
1900 ► WAGGA BLANKET a vagrant’s improvised covering, esp. of sacking → Aust. sl.
1900 ► WAGGA RUG a vagrant’s improvised covering, esp. of sacking → Aust. sl.
1914 ► JUNGLE a camp for vagrants → sl., orig. US
1914 ► STEM a street frequented by vagrants → US sl.
1931 ► SKID ROW a part of a town frequented by vagrants, alcoholics, etc. → sl., chiefly Amer.

NOUNS, PERSON
1225 ► HARLOT a vagabond, a vagrant; a beggar, a rogue, a rascal, a villain, a low fellow, a knave → obs.
1340 ► FAITOUR an impostor, a cheat; a vagrant who shams illness or pretends to tell fortunes → obs. exc. arch.
1444 ► VAGRANT one of a class of persons who having no settled home or regular work wander from place to place, and maintain themselves by begging or in some other dishonest or disreputable way; an itinerant beggar, idle loafer, or tramp
1450 ► GANGERAL → GANGEREL → GANGERELL → GANGREL → GANGRIL → GANGRILL a wandering beggar; a vagrant, a vagabond, tramp; a wanderer, a walker; a peddler →
1489 ► ROGUE an idle vagrant → obs. exc. hist.
1508 ► GABERLUNGY an itinerant beggar, a vagrant; sometimes, a licensed beggar, a beadsman → Sc. arch.
1534 ► JACK OUT OF DOORS a person turned out of his former place; a homeless person; a vagrant → obs.
1548 ► HEDGE-CREEPER a vagrant; a thief; a peeping tom → obs.
M16. ► ROGER a begging vagrant pretending to be a poor Oxford or Cambridge scholar → sl. obs.
1583 ► EXTRAVAGANT a person who strays or wanders from a place; a vagrant, a wanderer → obs.
1592 ► CANTER a vagrant or beggar; one who uses ‘cant’ → sl.
1592 ► STRAVAGANT a vagrant, a vagabond, a tramp → obs.
1599 ► VAGROM a vagrant, a vagabond, a tramp
L16.. ► LAND-RAKER a vagrant, a tramp → sl.
E17.. ► LAND-LOPER a wandering tramp; a vagrant → sl.
E17.. ► LAND-LUBBER a wandering tramp; a vagrant → sl.
1600 ► VAGER → VAGUER an idle stroller or wanderer; a vagrant; a footloose person, a gadabout; esp. historically, one who strolled about the streets during church service → Sc. 
1614 ► WAGAND a vagrant → obs.
1631 ► HEDGE BIRD a person born or brought up on or frequenting the roadside; a vagrant; a footpad
1654 ► BESS O’ BEDLAM a harmless vagrant or maniac formerly allowed to range the country; hence, any female of wild or disorderly appearance → Eng. dial.
1663 ► CAIRD → KAIRD a travelling tinker; a gypsy, tramp, vagrant → Sc.
1673 ► MUMPER a vagrant, a tramp → sl.
1684 ► TANTRIL an idle person, esp. a girl; a vagrant, a vagabond; a gypsy → Eng. dial.
1684 ► TRANTRELL → TRANTRILL an idle person, esp. a girl; a vagrant, a vagabond; a gypsy → Eng. dial.
1699 ► BLACK-GUARD a vagrant child; a young ragamuffin → obs.
1720 ► LAND-LOUPER one who roams about the country idly or to escape the law; a vagrant, a roving vagabond, an adventurer, a scamp → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1733 ► RAMSCALLION an offensively dirty person; a vagrant of low, rude, worthless habits; a mean wretched fellow → now chiefly N. Eng. dial.
1745 ► LAIRD OF WINDY-WAYS a homeless person, a vagrant → Sc.
1775 ► VAIGER a wanderer, a rover, a vagrant → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1788 ► RANDIE → RANDY a sturdy, rude-mannered beggar; a thorough vagrant → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
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.
1823 ► ABRAHAMER a tramp; a vagrant → sl. obs.
1825 ► WAFFINGER a confirmed vagrant and idler → Sc.
1838 ► PIKER a vagrant, a tramp, a good-for-nothing → sl., derogatory
1838 ► PIKEY a gypsy or vagrant → Brit. sl., derogatory
1850 ► WALKER an itinerant beggar, vagrant, vagabond, or tramp → Eng. dial.
1851 ► HAYBAG a woman, esp. a prostitute or a vagrant, who is fat and usually dissipated or dissolute → Amer. sl.
1854 ► PADDER a tramp; a vagrant → Eng. dial. 
1855 ► BESSY female bedlamites were called Bess o’ Bedlams; the term is still applied in some parts of the provinces to vagrants of that sex → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1855 ► BUMMER a vagrant or loafer who lives by begging or scrounging from others → sl., orig. US, derogatory
1855 ► VAGAUNT a vagrant; a wanderer → obs. (Bk.)
1859 ► FLOATER a person who is perpetually changing his place of abode; a vagrant → sl.
1859 ► VAG a vagabond, a vagrant, a tramp; a homeless person → Aust. & Amer. sl.
1864 ► BUM a vagrant, a tramp → sl., orig. & chiefly US
1864 ► DOCK RAT a ‘wharf rat’; a vagrant who hangs around the docks → US sl.
1866 ► DOSSER a vagrant, a tramp → Brit. sl.
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.
1878 ► WALER → WHALER orig. a tramp whose route followed the course of a river; a tramp, a vagrant → Aust.
1881 ► HAYRACK a woman, esp. a prostitute or vagrant, who is fat and usually dissipated or dissolute → Amer. sl.
1884 ► GANGING BODY a beggar, a tramp, a vagrant → Sc.
1886 ► BILLABONGER a vagrant → Aust. sl.
1887 ► WAG a vagrant → Aust. & US sl.
1888 ► BACK SLUMMERS dirty, common, low, and vagrant people who reside in the ‘Back-slums’ (beggars meeting-places; the expression applies to all Metropolitan receptacles of mendicants, prostitutes, thieves, and rogues of every degree to get a night’s lodging) → sl. (Bk.)
1888 ► DRUMMER a tramp, a vagrant → Aust. & NZ sl.
1888 ► GAE-THROUGH-LAND a wanderer; a vagabond or vagrant; a pilgrim; an exile → Sc. (Bk.)
1891 ► TOE-RAGGER a tramp, a vagrant → Aust. sl.
1894 ► WALLABY a vagrant; a swagman → Aust. sl.
1895 ► BIRD OF PASSAGE a person never long in one place; a wanderer, a tramp, a vagrant → sl.
1895 ► GANGING MAN a beggar, a tramp, a vagrant → Sc. obs.
1895 ► WANDERING WILLIE a vagrant, a tramp → US sl.
1895 ► YARRA-BANKER a loafer or vagrant idling on the banks of the Yarra River, Melbourne; a Melbourne soapbox orator → Aust. sl.
1897 ► BINDLE-STIFF a tramp or vagrant who carries a bindle, a bundle containing clothes and possessions, esp. a bedding-roll; formerly a migrant worker → US sl.
L19.. ► CODGE a vagrant, a tramp → sl.
L19.. ► HOBO a tramp, a vagrant, an itinerant worker, often using the US rail system as a means of free transport → US sl.
L19.. ► MISSION STIFF a tramp or vagrant who frequents charitable missions, looking for hand-outs, food and shelter, esp. one who pretends conversion → US sl.
L19.. ► SHAUGHRAUN a wandering person, a vagrant; also, an itinerant state → Irish & Can. dial.
1900 ► BINDLE MAN a tramp, a vagrant → Amer. sl.
1900 ► GANGER a tramp, a beggar, a vagrant, a hawker → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1901 ► SCOUR-THE-COUNTRY a vagrant, a vagabond → Sc.
1902 ► LAMB a vagrant committed to prison for three days only → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1903 ► BESS a harmless vagrant or maniac formerly allowed to range the country; hence, any female of wild or disorderly appearance → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► RAIL a vagrant → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► WAIF-AND-STRAY homeless vagrants; flotsam and jetsam, useless or discarded objects; strayed cattle of unknown ownership → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1909 ► VAGRAL a vagrant, a vagabond → Sc.
1910 ► ARAB a young vagrant; a poor boy playing much in the streets → colloq.
1910 ► CITY ARAB a young vagrant; a poor boy playing much in the streets → colloq.
1910 ► STREET ARAB a young vagrant; a poor boy playing much in the streets → colloq.
1916 ► GAY CAT SPOTTER a small-time criminal, usually a vagrant or the lookout in a robbery → criminals’ sl. 
1917 ► BENCH-FLOPPER a tramp, a vagrant → US sl.
1918 ► DINGBAT a tramp, a vagrant → US sl.
1918 ► DINO → DYNO a tramp, a vagrant → US sl.
1925 ► SKIPPER a vagrant, a tramp → Brit. sl.
1927 ► BENCH-WARMER a tramp; a vagrant → US sl.
1927 ► RING-TAIL a vagrant, a tramp → US sl.
1935 ► BELCH a drunken vagrant → US sl.
1937 ► BATTLE-AX(E) a female vagrant → US criminals’ sl.
1942 ► SADDLE TRAMP a vagrant who travels on horseback → Amer. sl.
1955 ► SLAG a vagrant, a tramp → sl.
1957 ► SKEL → SKELL a villain, a rogue, esp. a vagrant who lives on the streets; a street derelict who may be a villain → US sl.
1960 ► MEFF a vagrant → UK playground sl.
1960 ► MEFFER a vagrant → UK playground sl.
1963 ► MINK a tinker; a vagrant → Sc.
1967 ► RAILRIDER a vagrant who hitches rides on railroads; a tramp → Amer. dial.
1970 ► OKIE a vagrant, a tramp → S. Afr. sl.
1984 ► SCAT a vagrant seeking work in a London market → Brit. sl.
1990 ► CRUSTIE → CRUSTY one of a group of homeless or vagrant young people, generally living by begging in cities, and characterized by rough clothes, matted, often dreadlocked hair, and an unkempt appearance
1998 ► HURRICANE LAMP a tramp, a vagrant → UK rhyming sl.
2000 ► SKEG a smelly vagrant or one who resembles such a person → sl.
2000 ► SKEGGY a smelly vagrant or one who resembles such a person → sl.
2004 ► YARDBIRD a vagrant who frequents railway yards → US sl. (Bk.)

PHRASES
1859 ► ON THE VAG on a charge of vagrancy → sl.

VERBS
1425 ► VAGUE to wander; to range, to roam; to ramble idly or as a vagrant → Sc. now rare or obs.
E17.. ► PAD (IT) to travel as tramp, thief, vagrant, or prostitute → sl.
1807 ► PALMER to wander about like a palmer or vagrant; to go about idly from place to place → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1851 ► LUMP ONE’S BLUEY to travel as a vagrant, carrying one’s possessions → Aust. sl.
1851 ► LUMP ONE’S DRUM to travel as a vagrant, carrying one’s possessions → Aust. sl.
1851 ► LUMP ONE’S KNOT to travel as a vagrant, carrying one’s possessions → Aust. sl.
1851 ► LUMP ONE’S MATILDA to travel as a vagrant, carrying one’s possessions → Aust. sl.
1851 ► LUMP ONE’S SWAG to travel as a vagrant, carrying one’s possessions → Aust. sl.
1859 ► VAG to treat or deal with one as a vagabond or vagrant; to charge someone with vagrancy→ US sl.
1886 ► VAGRANT to behave like a vagrant; to ramble or roam
1893 ► VAGRANTIZE to reduce to the condition of a vagrant
1893 ► WALTZ MATILDA to travel as a vagrant, carrying one’s possessions → Aust. sl.
1910 ► CHASE THE SUNSET to live as a vagrant → Aust. sl.
1930 ► MOPE to live as a vagrant → US criminals’ sl.