Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Scotch or northern English forms of landloper, landloping.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A vagabond; a vagrant.

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  • noun A vagabond; a vagrant.

Etymologies

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From Dutch landlooper, literally “land-runner”. See land, leap.

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Examples

  • German landlouper, I have caused your servants beds to be made here in the gallery.

    A Legend of Montrose 1871

  • It wad look unco-like, I thought, just to be sent out on a hunt-the-gowk errand wi 'a landlouper like that.

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • "Nevertheless, if you wish it, Harry, I'll set all other respects aside, and send the landlouper to seek other quarters tomorrow morning."

    The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801

  • It wad look unco-like, I thought, just to be sent out on a hunt-the-gowk errand wi 'a landlouper like that.

    Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • It wad look unco-like, I thought, just to be sent out on a hunt-the-gowk errand wi 'a landlouper like that.

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

  • “Nevertheless, if you wish it, Harry, I’ll set all other respects aside, and send the landlouper to seek other quarters tomorrow morning.”

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • The young man's no landlouper ony mair nor yersel '-- no as mickle indeed, but a very proper young man, wi' a face as bonny as an angel -- "

    The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

  • -- Ay, ay -- trust him for that -- they that hide ken best where to find -- he wants to wile him out o 'his last guinea, and then escape to his ain country, the landlouper. "

    The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

  • It wad look unco-like, I thought, just to be sent out on a hunt-the-gowk errand wi’ a landlouper like that.

    Guy Mannering 1815

  • And then his absurd and expensive operations carried on by this High-German landlouper, Dousterswivel "--

    The Antiquary — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

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