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Vagabond vs Lorel - What's the difference?

vagabond | lorel |

As nouns the difference between vagabond and lorel

is that vagabond is a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time while lorel is a good-for-nothing fellow; a vagabond; losel.

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.
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    lorel

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A good-for-nothing fellow; a vagabond; losel.
  • *1810 , Alexander Chalmers, The works of the English poets :
  • But lurco, I apprehend, signifies only a glutton, which falls very short of our idea of a lorel ; and besides I do not believe that the word was ever sufficiently common in Latin to give rise to a derivative in English.
  • *1988 , Stephen Jay Greenblatt, Shakespearean Negotiations :
  • I refer to the sinister glossaries appended to sixteenth-century accounts of criminals and vagabonds. "Here I set before the good reader the lewd, lousy language of these loitering lusks and lazy lorels ," announces Thomas Harman as he introduces [...]
  • *2010 , Kent Cartwright, A Companion to Tudor Literature :
  • Just as a simian – be it a monkey or a marmoset, an ape or cercopithecus – may play the scholar or abuse the book, so the lorel can only look upon the Bible or play-act as lord.
    (Webster 1913)