landloper

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English

Noun

landloper (plural landlopers)

  1. Alternative spelling of landlouper.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for landloper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)


Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

Compound of land +‎ lopen +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɑntˌloː.pər/
  • Hyphenation: land‧lo‧per

Noun

landloper m (plural landlopers, diminutive landlopertje n, feminine landloopster)

  1. A vagabond, a vagrant. [from ca. 16th c.]
    Synonyms: clochard, schooier, vagebond, zwerver

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