vagrom

[ vey-gruhm ]

adjective

, Archaic.

1. vagrant.

Word History and Origins

Origin of vagrom¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; variant of vagrant

Example Sentences

She had read of Pompadour and other royal favorites whose vagrom whims swayed the destinies of Europe.

From Project Gutenberg

It is the ton at court to wear these mitres excessively tight, and to carry a little ivory blade, modelled like a shoe-horn, with which the cap of honor is drawn on, and all "vagrom" locks of hair "comprehended."

From Project Gutenberg

The poor simple creatures!—and yet I warrant me they be none so poor but that the rascal doctor can make his money out o' them: 'tis a foine way o' making a fortune that, going vagrom about the country with his draughts and pills—not honest medicines that a body might make out o' wholesome herbs, but nauseous stinking stuff that robs a man of his breath in the very swallowing of it.

From Project Gutenberg

Altogether, they seem to have been men who would not have been slow to heed the older Dogberry's advice to his watchmen that, if one of them bid a vagrom man stand, and he did not stand, to take no note of him, but to let him go, and presently call the rest of the watch together and thank God that he was rid of a knave.

From Project Gutenberg

The Ganges, after the vagrom fashion of all giant rivers, was cutting a new bed through the sunken reefs towards the low-lying marsh.

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