Reverse Dictionary: WANDER

ADJECTIVES
► ABERRANT wandering away or straying from a defined path; hence, diverging or deviating from any moral standard → 1848 
► AMPLIVAGOUS wandering widely or at large; having a large sphere of action → 1731 obs.
► CIRCUMFORANEOUS wandering from place to place, as from market to market or house to house; strolling about, vagrant → 1650 obs.
► DANDERING wandering, sauntering → 1773 Sc.
► EGREGIOUS wandering from the flock → 1873 
► EXTRAVAGANT wandering out of bounds; straying, roaming, vagrant → 1604 obs.
► FIDDLE-FOOTED restless, given to wandering, gadding about → 1941 Amer. dial.
► GADABOUT wandering; given to roving or gadding → 1817 
► GADDY given to wandering or roving about → 1637 obs.
► GADLING wandering → 1594 obs.
► GANG-THERE-OUT vagrant, wandering → 1816 Sc. 
► HAIKIN’ wandering, idle, worthless; gossiping from house to house → 1836 Sc.
► LAND-LOPING ► LAND-LOUPING wandering, roving, vagabond → 1577 obs. exc. Sc.
► MAIZY ► MAZEY ► MAZY wandering, uneasy, unsettled; semi-conscious, wandering in one’s mind → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MONTIVAGANT wandering on the mountains → 1656 obs.
► MONTIVAGOUS wandering up and down the hills and mountains → 1658 obs.
► MULTIVAGANT wandering continually or in many directions → 1656 obs.
► MULTIVAGOUS wandering continually or in many directions → 1727 obs.
► MUNDIVAGANT wandering about the world, roaming through the world → 1656 obs.
► NEMORIVAGANT wandering in the woods → 1656 
► NEMORIVAGOUS wandering in woods or groves → 1721 
► NOCTIVAGANT wandering in the night → 1620 
► OMNIVAGANT wandering or roaming everywhere or in all directions → 1656 
► ON THE GAD constantly running or wandering about → 1863 Eng. dial.
► ON THE RAKE wandering idly around → 1967 Sc.
► ON THE WALLABY on tramp; wandering about on foot, whether in search of work or aimlessly as a vagrant → 1869 
► ON THE WALLABY TRACK on tramp; wandering about on foot, whether in search of work or aimlessly as a vagrant → 1890 
► PADDLING walking; wandering aimlessly → 1828 Sc.
► PALMERING wandering; walking feebly → 1816 Sc.
► PERAMBULATORY moving from place to place, wandering, strolling, itinerant → 1650 
► PEREGRINATORY characteristic of a traveller or wanderer → 1773 
► PEREGRINE travelling; wandering; formerly, on a pilgrimage, travelling as a pilgrim → 1599 
► PLANETICOSE given to wandering or roaming → 1849 
► RAIKIN wandering → 1818 Sc.
► RAMBLE-HEADED of a wandering, giddy disposition → 1761 obs.
► RUN-ABOUT wandering, restless → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SOLIVAGANT wandering about alone; characterized by going alone → 1641 
► SOLIVAGOUS wandering alone → 1727 
► TAIVERT wandering, exhausted with work, fatigued → 1879 Sc.
► UPON THE GAD constantly running or wandering about → 1815 
► VAGABONDIAL roaming, wandering, vagabondish → 1615 obs.
► VAGABONDICAL ► VAGABUNDICAL roaming, wandering, vagabondish → 1576 
► VAGANT wandering, roaming, roving; travelling or moving from place to place; having no settled home or abiding place → 1382 obs.
► VAGARIOUS wandering, roaming, roving → 1882 
► VAGOUS vagrant or vague; departing from or exceeding just or ordinary bounds; irregular, inordinate; unsettled, wandering → 1660 obs.
► VAGRAL vagrant, wandering → 1899 Sc.
► VAGRARIOUS vagrant, wandering → 1795 obs.
► VAGRATE vagrant, wandering; nomadic → 1619 obs.
► VAGROM vagrant, vagabond, wandering → 1599 
► VAIG wandering, roaming; quickly swept away → 1791 Sc. obs.
► WAFF 1. of animals: strayed, wandering, ownerless → 1711 Sc.
2. of persons: vagrant, wandering, homeless, footloose → 1725 Sc.
► WAFFER strayed, wandering → 1789 Sc. obs.
► WAIF stray, wandering, homeless → 1730 Sc.
► WAITH wandering, roaming → 1710 Sc. obs.
► WALKING leading a wandering life, vagrant, strolling → 1490 obs.
► WANCRAUNT given to wandering → 1422 obs.
► WANDERABLE that one can wander in → 1906 

NOUNS
► ABERRATION a wandering away; a straying; a deviation or divergence from the straight or recognized path → 1615 
► BANGLING a hanging about, wandering idly → 1894 Eng. dial.
► BUMMEL a leisurely stroll or journey; a wander, a saunter → 1900 
► DANDERING a wandering, a stroll → 1828 Sc.
► ECDEMIOMANIA a mania for wandering → 1991 (Bk.)
► EVAGATION 1. a wandering of the mind, thoughts, etc. → 1425 obs.
2. the act of wandering; a rambling, roving; a departing from a specified locality, prescribed course, etc. → 1691 
► EXTRAVAGANCY a wandering beyond bounds or out of one’s course; vagrancy → 1616 obs.
► EXTRAVAGATION a wandering beyond due or prescribed limits → 1611 
► FAR-ABOUT a digression, wandering → 1639 obs.
► OBERRATION a straying or wandering about → 1658 obs.
► ODYSSEY a long series of wanderings to and fro; a long adventurous journey → 1889 
► PERAGRATION a wandering thorough, a travelling over → 1611 
► PERERRATION a wandering → 1611 obs.
► PERVAGATION a wandering about → 1656 
► RAMATRACKS purposeless wandering → 20C Ulster sl.
► SCAMP idle wandering, roaming about → 1866 Sc.
► VAGANCY a wandering or strolling → 1641 obs.
► VAGARY a wandering or devious journey or tour; a roaming about or abroad; an excursion, ramble, stroll → 1577 obs.
► VAGATION the act of wandering, straying, or departing from the proper or regular course;  a wandering, rambling, or roaming → 1340 obs.
► WAITH that which is stray and unclaimed; flotsam and jetsam; a wandering, a straying → 1838 Sc. obs.
► WANDERMENT the act of wandering → 1597 obs.

NOUNS, PERSON
► AUWANA a gadabout; a wanderer → 1938 Hawaii
► BANDONEES horseless tramps, wanderers → 1890 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BIRD OF PASSAGE a person never long in one place; a wanderer, a tramp, a vagrant → 1895 sl.
► BUTTERFLY one given to wandering → 1890 
► CURSITOR one who wanders about the country; a vagabond, a tramp → 1567 obs.
► EARTH-PLANET a fugitive, a wanderer → 1591 obs.
► EXTRAVAGANT a person who strays or wanders from a place; a vagrant, a wanderer → 1583 obs.
► FIDDLE-FOOT a person who wanders → 1944 Amer. dial.
► GADABOUT one who wanders or roves, esp. from motives of curiosity or gossip → 1837 
► GAD-ABROAD one who wanders or roves, esp. from motives of curiosity or gossip → 1810 obs.
► GADDER one who wanders or roves, esp. from motives of curiosity or gossip; a gadabout, a busybody, a gossip; a talkative person; an idle woman → 1550 
► GADDER-ABOUT one who wanders or roves, esp. from motives of curiosity or gossip →  1568 obs.
► GADDER-ABROAD one who wanders or roves, esp. from motives of curiosity or gossip →  1577 obs.
► GAD-FLY a person who is constantly wandering or roving about → 1614 obs.
► GADLING ► GEDLING a wanderer, a wayfarer, a vagabond → 1542 obs.
► GAE-THROUGH-LAND a wanderer; a vagabond or vagrant; a pilgrim; an exile → 1888 Sc. (Bk.)
► GANGAREL a wandering person, one who strolls from place to place, a vagabond → 1825 Sc.
► GANGERAL ► GANGEREL ► GANGERELL ► GANGRAL ► GANGREL ► GANGRIL ► GANGRILL a wandering beggar; a vagrant, a vagabond, tramp; a wanderer, a walker; a peddler → 1450 
► HAIK a person or animal in the habit of wandering idly from place to place, out of curiosity or with the idea of scrounging; generally applied opprobriously to a woman → 1825 Sc.
► HAIKER a person or animals in the habit of wandering idly from place to place, out of curiosity or with the idea of scrounging; generally applied opprobriously to a woman → 1866 Sc.
► HERE-AND-THEREIAN a person with no permanent place of residence; one who moves about from place to place; a wanderer → 1701 humorous usage
► HIDE-I’-THE-HEATHER a wanderer, a tramp → 1898 Sc.
► JAVEL a low or worthless fellow; a rascal, a vagabond; a wandering, dirty fellow; a tramp → 1300 obs.
► MULTIVAGANT a person who wanders about continually or in many directions → 1895 obs.
► NOCTIVAGANT one who wanders by night → 1633 
► NOCTIVAGATOR one who walks or wanders by night; a night-walker → 1640 obs.
► PEREGRINATOR a pilgrim (obs.); a traveller or wanderer → 1610 
► RAIK ► RAK ► RAKE a roving, gadabout person or animal; one who wanders about from place to place in search of gossip or entertainment → 1825 Sc.
► RAKER a vagabond, a wanderer, a rover → 1866 Sc.
► RANGER a rover, a wanderer → 1593 
► RIDGE RUNNER a person who wanders from place to place, esp. someone on the prowl → 1930 Amer. dial.
► ROLL-ABOUT a wanderer → 1893 
► SCAFF a person who habitually wanders about idly → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SHAUGHRAUN a wandering person, a vagrant; also, an itinerant state → L19 Irish & Can. dial.
► SHOOLER a wanderer, a vagrant, a tramp, a rover → 1910 Ireland (Bk.)
► SOLIVAGANT one who wanders about alone → 1621 
► TANTREL► TANTRELL ► TANTRIL an idle, unsettled person, who will not fix to any employment; a desultory wanderer or vagabond; hence, a gypsy → 1684 Eng. dial.
► THISTLE-DOWN children apt to wander; esp. on moor or heath → 1909 Anglo-Irish
► TINKER a wanderer → 1575 
► VAGAUNT a vagrant; a wanderer → 1855 obs. (Bk.)
► VAGER an idle stroller or wanderer; a vagrant; one who rambles idly or without good reason → 1646 Sc.
► VAGRANT one who wanders or roams about; a person who leads a wandering life; a rover; a wandering rogue, a strolling vagabond → 1590 
► VAGUER an idle stroller or wanderer; a vagrant; a footloose person, a gadabout; esp. historically, one who strolled about the streets during church service → 1600 Sc. 
► VAIG a wanderer; a vagabond; an idle person → 1833 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► VAIGER a wanderer, a rover, a vagrant → 1775 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► VALGERER one who wanders about → 1982 Jewish (Bk.)
► WAISTREL a person of vagabond life; an idle wanderer → 1878 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WALLEYDRAG ► WALLIDRAG ► WALLY-DREG a wanderer, a wastrel → 1790 Sc.
► WALLEYDRAIGLE ► WALLY-DRAIGLE ► WALLIE-TRAGLE a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman; a wastrel; a wanderer → 1790 Sc.
► WANDERLUSTER a person having an eager desire or fondness for wandering or travelling → 1927 

PHRASES
► BLARING AND STARING aimlessly or wildly wandering and staring → 1896 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
► ABERR to wander off, to go astray, to diverge from a recognized path → 1536 obs.
► ACHE ► AIK ► AKE ► HAAK ► HAIG ► HAIK ► HAKE to wander about aimlessly and idly; to loiter, to lounge; to hang about with intent to eavesdrop; to sneak → 1785 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► ASS AROUND to fool around, to loiter, to waste time; to wander aimlessly; to be idle; to act irresponsibly; to trifle → 1914 Amer. sl.
► ASSHOLE AROUND to loaf; to trifle; to wander idly about; to waste time → 1968 Amer. sl.
► ASSLE AROUND to loaf, to wander idly about → 1920 Amer. sl.
► AUNTER to saunter, to stroll; to wander → 1810 Sc.
► AUWANA to wander about aimlessly; to go by walking → 1938 Hawaii
► BANDY to wander or roam about → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BEAT AROUND to potter, to trifle, to loaf or idle; to gad about; to wander aimlessly → 1960 Amer. dial.
► BLARE to wander about; to rush about → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BOGUE to wander, to walk aimlessly; to trudge; to move slowly → 1775 Amer. dial.
► BOOM AROUND to move from place to place, to wander → 1967 Amer. dial.
► BROGUE to walk, to hike, to trudge; to wander or go about aimlessly → 1883 Amer. dial.
► BROGUE AROUND to wander about → 1954 Amer. dial.
► BROOSE AROUND  ► BROOZE AROUND to wander about idly → 1880 Amer. dial.
► BROUGE AROUND to wander about idly → 1927 Amer. dial.
► BROWSE to wander about idly; to loaf, to dawdle → 1965 Amer. dial.
► BROWSE AROUND to wander about idly; to loaf, to dawdle → 1884 Amer. dial.
► BRUISE ALONG to wander about idly → 1952 Amer. dial.
► BRUISE AROUND to wander about idly → 1855 Amer. dial.
► BUM to knock about; to wander around, to loaf → 1883 US colloq.
► BUM AROUND to wander around → 1990 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BUMMEL to stroll or wander around in a leisurely way; to laze about → 1900 
► COYOTE to wander about, to drift → 1948 Amer. dial.
► DACKER to go about in a sauntering, idle way; to wander → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DAIVER ► DAVER to wander aimlessly; to go out of one’s way from stupor; to wander in mind, to become stupid; to tarry → 1813 Sc.
► DANDER ► DANER ► DANNER ► DAUNDER ► DONDER to stroll, to saunter, to wander; to trifle, to misspend one’s time; to hobble → 1727 Sc.
► DOVER to wander aimlessly or confusedly; to walk unsteadily → E19 Sc.
► DROODLE to wander aimlessly; to laze around → 20C US sl.
► DWELE to wander, to go astray; to err, to be deluded → 900 obs.
► EGAR to stray, to wander, to go astray → 1584 obs.
► EXTRAVAGANT to wander away; to stray → 1656 obs.
► EXTRAVAGATE 1. to wander away, to stray → 1600 
2. to wander at large; to roam at will → 1766 
► GAD to go wandering in desire or thought → 1579 
► GAITLE to wander idly → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GANDER ► GANNER to wander aimlessly, or with a foolish air like that of a gander → 1822 Eng. dial.
► GAPE to idle, to wander → 1966 US sl.
► GAPE-STICK to stare, to gape, to wander listlessly → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GET A FIT OF THE GAD to have a fit of aimless wandering → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GO GANDERHEADING ABOUT to wander aimlessly about → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GOPHER to wander around, to potter about → 1958 Amer. dial.
► HAINGLE to go about in a feeble, languid way; to hang about, to loiter, to wander about aimlessly → 1804 Sc.
► HAVE A GAD-FLY to be fond of wandering or roving about → 1591 obs.
► HAVE SHOES MADE OF RUNNING LEATHER to be given to wandering; to move restlessly from place to place; to be a roamer or rover → 1575 obs.
► ITINERATE to journey or travel from place to place; to wander → 1600 
► JUNE to move in a lively fashion, to hurry; to be restless or aimless; to wander around → 1869 Amer. dial.
► KAAIKE to stare vacantly; to wander listlessly → 1854 Eng. dial.
► KADOODLE to hang around, to frequent, to wander about → L19 US sl.
► KNOCK AROUND to wander; to travel aimlessly → M19 sl., orig. US
► LALL to lounge, to loiter, to wander about aimlessly → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LAUMER ► LAWMER to wander, to saunter, to ramble → 1876 Eng. dial.
► MAUNDER to wander about in a confused, aimless, or melancholy fashion; to miss one’s way; to walk unsteadily; to act in a helpless, imbecile manner → 1819 Eng. dial.
► MAZE to wander as if stupefied → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MAZLE ► MAZZLE to wander aimlessly about; to trifle; to do anything unskilfully → 1747 Eng. dial.
► MOIDER ► MOITHER to wander about aimlessly or confusedly → 1872 Eng. dial.
► MOSEY to wander or shuffle about leisurely; to stroll; to saunter: often followed by ‘along’, ‘about’, etc → 1820 Amer.
► NUTS ABOUT ► NUTS AROUND to wander around aimlessly → 1947 US sl.
► OBAMBULATE to walk about; to wander hither and thither → 1614 
► PAD ► PAD IT to walk; to wander → M17 sl.
► PADDLE to walk, esp. to walk slowly or with short steps; to totter, to toddle; to wander about → 1792 
► PAIDLE to walk, esp. to walk slowly or with short steps; to totter, to toddle; to wander about → 1808 Sc.
► PALAVER to go around; to wander about → 1970 Black British usage
► PALMER to wander about like a palmer or vagrant; to go about idly from place to place; to saunter about → 1807 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► PANDER to wander or idle about in a silly, purposeless fashion, from one place to another → 1905 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PERAGRATE to wander through the country; to rove about; to travel over or through → 1542 
► PERCOLATE to walk, to stroll, to wander → 1881 US sl.
► PERERRATE to wander up and down → 1623 obs.
► PERUSE to wander, to saunter, to prowl; to walk in a leisurely manner; to make one’s way → 1853 Amer. dial.
► PERVAGATE to wander through → 1871 
► PESTICATE to wander idly; to prowl about → 1916 Amer. dial.
► PILF to wander about idly, to loaf, to loiter → 1919 Amer. dial.
► PILFER ► PILFER AROUND to wander about idly, to loaf, to loiter → 1919 Amer. dial.
► PISSANT AROUND to mess about; to loiter, to wander aimlessly → 1945 Aust. sl.
► PROGUE to wander, to idle about → 1856 Amer. dial.
► PROJECT to wander about, to walk about aimlessly, to go prying about, to prowl, to forage → 1845 Amer. dial.
► RAIK to go, to proceed, to make one’s way; to walk, to stroll, to wander → 1340 obs.
► RAIL to go about, to wander, to roam → 1400 obs.
► RAK to wander, to roam → 1967 Sc.
► RAKE to go or wander about, to roam, to stray, to ramble; to stroll about idly; to gad about → 1023 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► RALLY to wander back and forwards in a restless, disorderly manner → 1866 Sc.
► RANGLE to rove, to wander, to stray → 1567 obs.
► RANK to wander → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RAVEL to wander about aimlessly → 1880 Eng. dial.
► ROAM AROUND LIKE A LOST SHEEP to wander aimlessly → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► SACKLE to loiter; to wander idly about → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCAFF to wander about in an idle manner; to roam around → 1866 Sc.
► SCAMANDER to wander about, to take a a devious or winding course → 1864 
► SCAMP to wander about idly, to roam → 1904 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCATTERLOFISTICATE to wander aimlessly, at haphazard; to range over a country; to travel → 19C western sl.
► SCAVEN to wander aimlessly about; to loiter → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCLAMBER ► SCLAMMER ► SKLAMMER to wander about in idleness → 1832 Sc.
► SCOOT to go about in a lazy, idle manner; to wander about → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SHAG to make off; to wander aimlessly; to traipse → 1851 sl.
► SMOOCH to sneak, to creep; to wander or prowl round → 1904 Eng. dial.
► SNUDGE to wander about → 1904 Amer. dial.
► SPATIATE to walk about, to stroll; to wander, roam, rove, or ramble → 1626 
► STRAVAIG to wander about aimlessly → L18 orig. & chiefly Sc., Irish. & N. Eng. dial.
► STROAM ► STROME to walk with long strides; also, to wander about idly → 1796 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► STROLLOP to wander about → 20C Amer. dial.
► SWAN to wander, to drift, to amble → L19 sl.
► SWAN ABOUT ► SWAN AROUND to wander blithely and carelessly without a care in the world → 1940 sl., orig. military usage
► TAIVER to wander; to delay → 1876 Sc.
► TIVIS to wander aimlessly about → 1916 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► TRAFFIC ► TRAFFIC ABOUT to wander, to move idly about → 1913 Amer. dial.
► TRAMPOOSE to tramp, to trudge, to walk or wander about; to traverse → 1725 Amer. dial.
► 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 → 1611 
► VAGARY to wander or roam → 1598 obs.
► VAGE ► VAGUE ► VAIG to wander; to range, to roam; to ramble idly or as a vagrant → 1425 Sc. obs.
► VENDER to wander → 1866 Sc.
► WAFF ► WAFF ABOUT to wander about in an idle manner → 1866 Sc.
► WAGGER to wander, to have no settled abode → 1380 obs.
► WAITH to wander → 1905 Sc. obs. (Bk.)
► WAIVE to wander, to stray → 1350 obs.
► WAKE to wander → 1802 Sc. obs.
► WALK to go from place to place; to journey, to wander → 1000 obs.
► WALLABY to wander around → 1900 Aust. sl.
► WAMBLE to ramble; to wander about aimlessly → 1869 Eng. dial.