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scatterling

noun

Etymology

From scatter + -ling.

  1. derived from *skey-✻
  2. inherited from *sceaterian✻
  3. inherited from scateren
  4. suffixed as scatterling — “scatter + ling”

Definitions

  1. One who has no fixed residence

    One who has no fixed residence; a vagabond.

    • Long time in peace his realm establishd, / Yet oft annoyd with sundry bordragings / Of neighbour Scots, and forrein scatterlings.
    • But ah! her fatal vengeance Struck to my heart. A banished scatterling I wandered on the earth.
    • He is surrounded by the sound, the sound / Cattle in the marketplace / Scatterlings and orphanages

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scatterling. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA