What's the difference between gadling and vagabond?

Gadling


Definition:

  • (n.) See Gad, n., 4.
  • (v. i.) Gadding about.
  • (n.) A roving vagabond.

Example Sentences:

Vagabond


Definition:

  • (a.) Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.
  • (a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
  • (a.) Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.
  • (n.) One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal.
  • (v. i.) To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An adaptation of the award-winning novel Small Island, about Jamaican immigrants to Britain in the 1940s, and Desperate Romantics, about a group of "vagabond painters and poets" set among the "alleys, galleries and flesh houses of 19th-century industrial London", will be among the first to be broadcast later this year.
  • (2) He said while he was being filmed in the Vagabond studio in Bethnal Green he was thinking about Winston Churchill getting his tattoo done.
  • (3) In view of that it seems necessary to solve a problem of organizing tuberculosis-oriented treatment-and-labor preventoria to render health care to the vagabonds and other patients refusing medical intervention.
  • (4) It’s more comfortable for many to believe instead that these aliens are greedy and parasitical, scroungers and vagabonds who want to take our stuff – our jobs, our homes, our school places, our cures for our sicknesses.
  • (5) (10) Including the Rich Kids, Hot Club, Dead Men Walking, the Flying Padovanis, Slinky Vagabond, the Mavericks, the Philistines and, most recently, International Swingers .
  • (6) The female female lead a vagabond life and actively join the male male in their territories during the breeding season.
  • (7) When people think of the homeless , most can only think of the seeming vagabonds that stink up entire subway cars and beg for change on the street.
  • (8) As an example of why the bylaws needed revoking, an alderman said that one of their conditions was that the porters should "toss out vagabonds and vagrants".
  • (9) The vagabonds had many troubles, especially, they often escaped from leprosaria.
  • (10) They were two vagabonds, Cloquet watching with slackness the young womanizering Flaubert.
  • (11) And remember, society's hard cases – what the Elizabethan poor law (that's Elizabeth I) would have dubbed the "sturdy rogue and vagabonds" who don't want to work and so enrage the tabloids – are not the type you'll probably find in this sort of office in Hull or elsewhere.
  • (12) Low incidence rates of tuberculosis are directly related to social factors, including higher morbidity among such groups as migrants, vagabonds, ex-convicts and alcohol abusers.
  • (13) "I think that in the same way Gabe is probably glad that his mother was a vagabond and not around him enough, and he got to go to all these strange places that now feel enriching."