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landlouping

landlouping adjective: vagrant; wandering about.

Adjective

landlouping (comparative more landlouping, superlative most landlouping)

  1. (archaic) vagrant; wandering about
    • "Like enough — like enough," answered another citizen, shaking his head. "It's a shame the breaches in our walls are not repaired, and that these landlouping Highland scoundrels are left at liberty to take honest men and women out of their beds any night that is dark enough."1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for...

Forms of landlouping

comparativemore landlouping
superlativemost landlouping

Questions about landlouping

What does landlouping mean?
Landlouping means vagrant; wandering about.
What part of speech is landlouping?
Landlouping is an adjective.

Words near landlouping in the dictionary

  1. landlordry
  2. landlords
  3. landlordship
  4. landlouper
  5. landloupers
  6. landlouping
  7. landlubber
  8. landlubberish
  9. landlubberliness
  10. landlubberly
  11. landlubbers

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