Vagabond vs Gadling - What's the difference?
vagabond | gadling |
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
Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
* Milton
* 1959 , Jack London, The Star Rover
roving vagabond; one who roams
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A man of humble condition; a fellow; a low fellow; lowborn; originally comrade or companion, in a good sense, but later used in reproach
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A spike on a gauntlet; a gad.
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 fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.
Synonyms
* See alsoHypernyms
* personAdjective
(-)- To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.
- 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)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. }}
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?” }}