scatterling
nounEtymology From scatter + -ling.
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Obsolete One who has no fixed residence; a vagabond.
- Long time in peace his realm establishd, / Yet oft annoyd with sundry bordragings / Of neighbour Scots, and forrein scatterlings.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 63:
- But ah! her fatal vengeance Struck to my heart. A banished scatterling I wandered on the earth.1839, Benjamin Disraeli, The Tragedy of Count Alarcos, published 1910, page 388:
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- He is surrounded by the sound, the sound / Cattle in the marketplace / Scatterlings and orphanages1986, Paul Simon, “You Can Call Me Al”, in Graceland: