epithites

Noun

epithite (plural epithites)

1. (obsolete) A lazy, worthless fellow; a vagrant.
   • And therefore wise men have alwaies applauded their own judgement, in the contradiction of that of the people; and their soberest adversaries, have ever afforded them the stile of fools and mad men; and to speak impartially, their actions have often made good these Epithites.1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica