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scatterling|ˈskætəlɪŋ|
[f. scatter v. + -ling1.]
A wandering or vagabond person; a vagrant. Also transf. Now arch.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. x. 63 Yet oft annoyd with sondry bordragings Of neighbour Scots, and forrein Scatterlings. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. ix. §8. 510/2 But God was no better pleased with these, then with the other scatterlings at Lincolne. 1824Blackw. Mag. XVI. 517 From mossy hillock, and tremulous stalk, We gather'd the lovely scatterlings.
attrib.1880Blackmore Mary Anerley II. iv. 62 The four..had nothing to do with, and little to say to, any of the scatterling folk about them. |