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Vagabond vs Gadling - What's the difference?

vagabond | gadling |

As nouns the difference between vagabond and gadling

is that vagabond is a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time while gadling is roving vagabond; one who roams.

As a verb vagabond

is to roam, as a vagabond.

As an adjective vagabond

is floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

vagabond

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
  • One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a hobo.
  • * Bible, Genesis iv. 12
  • A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Hypernyms

    * person

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To roam, as a vagabond
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
  • * Milton
  • To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.
  • * 1959 , Jack London, The Star Rover
  • Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we.
    ----

    gadling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • roving vagabond; one who roams
  • :* {{quote-book
  • , year=1947 , year_published=2006 , edition=digitized , editor= , author=Thomas Bertram Costain , title=The Moneyman , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Doubleday , isbn= , page=57 , passage=I'm delighted to see you. You're as brown, my gadling , as though you had returned from another journey to the East with Jean de Village. }}
  • A man of humble condition; a fellow; a low fellow; lowborn; originally comrade or companion, in a good sense, but later used in reproach
  • :* {{quote-book
  • , year=1906 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Rudyard Kipling , title=Puck of Pook's Hill , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page=96 , passage=“Pest on him!” said De Aquila. “I have more to do than to shiver in the Great Hall for every gadling the King sends. Left he no word?” }}
  • A spike on a gauntlet; a gad.
  • References

    (Webster 1913) * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia