a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging 流浪者,漂泊者 ■(archaic)a wanderer (古)流浪汉 ■(Ornithology)a bird that has strayed or been blown from its usual range or migratory route (鸟)离群鸟。 亦称accidental
adjective
[attrib.]characteristic of, relating to, or living the life of a vagrant 流浪(者)的,漂泊(者)的 vagrant beggars. 游丐。 ■moving from place to place; wandering 无定向的,游移不定的 vagrant whales. 游移鲸。 ■(poetic/literary)moving or occurring unpredictably; inconstant (诗/文)无常的 the vagrant heart of my mother. 我母亲飘忽不定的心。
派生 vagrancy noun vagrantly adverb 语源
late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French vagarant 'wandering about', from the verb vagrer