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Vagabond vs Loafer - What's the difference?

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Vagabond is a related term of loafer.


As nouns the difference between vagabond and loafer

is that vagabond is a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time while loafer is an idle person.

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

    Related terms

    * extravagant

    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.
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    loafer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An idle person.
  • A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.

    • Synonyms

    * (idle person ): bum, bumpkin, footler, idler, lout, yob, yobbo * (footwear ): penny loafer * See also

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