i'm not sure i understand it. are vagrants like hobos?
2007-02-14 11:25:04 · 5 answers · asked by LITTLE GREEN GOD 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Vagrant means a person who has no permanent home,no employment, spending their days generally hanging out in public places. Hoboes (correct plural), has a similar meaning but not quite. Vagrants has a negative connotation. Hoboes is more of a folksy meaning because they used to hop on trains and travel the country, stopping to work for a day/few to make a little money; yes they stole sometimes but generally not. Some people even envied the idea of the freedom of the hoboes to be free to travel around.
2007-02-14 11:38:08 · answer #1 · answered by Just Me 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A vagrant is a person, usually poor, who wanders from place to place without a home or regular work. Urban vagrants are commonly called "street people". Some towns have shelters for vagrants, such as The Rescue Mission in Syracuse, New York
2007-02-14 11:36:49 · answer #2 · answered by TJ 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The town has shelters and food handouts for vagrants.
The little town is full of beggars and vagrants
VAGRANT is a general term. 'Hobo' is an old-fashioned word used mainly in American English. Hobos (or Hoboes) are homeless and ususually penniless vagrants. What is TRAMP in British English is HOBO in American English.
2007-02-16 13:52:23 · answer #3 · answered by asok c 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not all vagrants panhandle.
don't confuse it with vagrancy, which is the state of a hobo, as in
they arrested the panhandler for vagrancy.
2007-02-14 11:28:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have great vagrants about not finishing college.
2007-02-14 11:32:49 · answer #5 · answered by italianone70 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋