landlouper

English

Alternative forms

• landloper

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch landloper (literally “land-runner”). Merged with native English landleaper; equivalent to land +‎ leaper.

Noun

landlouper (plural landloupers)

1. (archaic) A vagabond; a vagrant.

   Synonym: landleaper

   • 1856, John Lothrop Moltey, The Rise of the Dutch Republic, page 594:

     Bands of landloupers had been employed […]

Related terms

• lope
• interloper

Translations

vagabond — see vagabond

References

• “landlouper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.