"scatterling" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: scatterlings [plural]
Etymology: From scatter + -ling. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|scatter|ling}} scatter + -ling Head templates: {{en-noun}} scatterling (plural scatterlings)
  1. (obsolete) One who has no fixed residence; a vagabond. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): People Synonyms: vagabond

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From scatter + -ling.",
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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 63:",
          "text": "Long time in peace his realm establishd, / Yet oft annoyd with sundry bordragings / Of neighbour Scots, and forrein scatterlings.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1839, Benjamin Disraeli, The Tragedy of Count Alarcos, published 1910, page 388:",
          "text": "But ah! her fatal vengeance Struck to my heart. A banished scatterling I wandered on the earth.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Paul Simon (lyrics and music), “You Can Call Me Al”, in Graceland:",
          "text": "He is surrounded by the sound, the sound / Cattle in the marketplace / Scatterlings and orphanages",
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        }
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        "One who has no fixed residence; a vagabond."
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        "(obsolete) One who has no fixed residence; a vagabond."
      ],
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    }
  ],
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          "text": "But ah! her fatal vengeance Struck to my heart. A banished scatterling I wandered on the earth.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Paul Simon (lyrics and music), “You Can Call Me Al”, in Graceland:",
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