what are vagabonds and why are they vagbanonds?

Question

im talking about vagabonds from the middle ages

Answer 1

A vagabond is a (generally impoverished) itinerant person. Such people can be tramps, rogues, hobos or schnorrers.

A vagabond is a traveling person that does not have a home, just roams wherever he or she pleases.

Answer 2

'A vagabond is a (generally impoverished) itinerant person. Such people can be tramps, rogues, hobos or schnorrers.

A vagabond was a travelling person that did not have a home, just roamed.'

This was OK in summer, but life was tough in the middle ages, when most food had to be slaughter at Martins mass for the winter. thus they looked very dishevelled, and were not trusted by the villagers and town folk, upon whom they had to survive over the cold winter.

Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French vacabund, from Late Latin vagabundus, from Latin vagari to wander

Answer 3

I have only ever heard of the reference Vagabond meaning somebody who did not (or would not) have a settled home.
One who traveled about doing menial tasks to support himself.

I believe the term may have come about through the Biblical tale of the Wandering Jew.

In current time, it means a bum, but do not mix the terms or meanings.
A hobo is one who travels about in an honest manner, albeit, generally hitching a ride on a train without a ticket.
A bum is one who will resort to thievery and dishonesty to move about.

Answer 4

Vagrant: a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

Answer 5

They were homeless wanderers not unlike Gypsies

Answer 6

They are the same as "scallywags"

Answer 7

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