vagrant
noun
[ ˈveɪɡr(ə)nt ]
• a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging.
Similar:
tramp,
drifter,
down-and-out,
derelict,
beggar,
itinerant,
wanderer,
nomad,
wayfarer,
traveller,
gypsy,
rover,
vagabond,
transient,
migrant,
homeless person,
beachcomber,
knight of the road,
bird of passage,
rolling stone,
hobo,
bagman,
knockabout,
overlander,
sundowner,
whaler,
streety,
bag lady,
bum,
bindlestiff,
outie,
derro,
vagrant
adjective
• relating to or living the life of a vagrant.
• "vagrant beggars"
Similar:
homeless,
drifting,
transient,
roving,
roaming,
floating,
unsettled,
footloose,
itinerant,
wandering,
nomadic,
travelling,
ambulatory,
mobile,
on the move,
journeying,
rambling,
touring,
vagabond,
migrant,
migrating,
migratory,
rootless,
of no fixed address/abode,
errant,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French vagarant ‘wandering about’, from the verb vagrer .