Both Uses of
vagrant
in
The Adventures of Augie March
- We give you a flop last night, but next time you'll get a vagrancy hung on you.†
Chpt 9 *
- Jepson was picked up for vagrancy and sent back to the States, thus Iggy's wife wanted him back.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(vagrant) someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, and especially long ago, you may see vagrant used to emphasize that a poor person wanders from place to place. Even more rarely, it can describe an animal as being in a place it usually is not, or to describe anything that varies or seems random such as the seeming haphazard direction in which a certain weed spreads, or the fleeting quality of something smelled for only an instant.