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Vagrant vs Rifter - What's the difference?

vagrant | rifter |

As nouns the difference between vagrant and rifter

is that vagrant is a person without a home or job while rifter is (obsolete) a rafter.

As an adjective vagrant

is moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.

vagrant

English

(wikipedia vagrant)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person without a home or job.
  • * 2002 , , WIGU: Day two begins
    • Paisley: What smells like dinosaur crap?
    Mother: Your brother wants people to think we’re vagrants .
    Wigu: I stink.
  • A wanderer.
    • Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighborhood begging for food.
  • (ornithology) A bird found outside its species’ usual range.

    • Synonyms

    * beggar * down-and-out * drifter * itinerant * tramp * wanderer * vagabond * See also

    Derived terms

    * vagrancy

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
  • * Prior
    • That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took.
  • * Macaulay
    • While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in love.
  • Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation.
    • a vagrant beggar

    rifter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A rafter.
    • (Holland)
    (Webster 1913)