Vagabond vs Ruffler - What's the difference?
vagabond | ruffler |
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
(historical) ruffian, bully, villain; especially a 16th-17th century vagabond operating under the guise of a maimed soldier or sailor
* 1978 , , Chapter 1:
swaggerer
a sewing machine attachment for making ruffles
As nouns the difference between vagabond and ruffler
is that vagabond is a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time while ruffler is (historical) ruffian, bully, villain; especially a 16th-17th century vagabond operating under the guise of a maimed soldier or sailor.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.
ruffler
English
Noun
(en noun)- The ruffler in leather, who lately went fighting through the door, has returned, presumably by means of another entrance.