Why this word is great
GYROVAGUE — [Noun] A wandering monk without a fixed monastery, often criticized for a lack of discipline, as described in the Rule of St. Benedict. From the French gyrovague, borrowed from Medieval Latin gȳrovagus, combining gyro- ("circle, wander") and vagus ("roaming, strolling"). Unlike "cenobite" (a monk bound to communal life) or "anchorite" (a hermit rooted in seclusion), the gyrovague is a restless pilgrim, neither here nor there. He is the shuffling figure at dusk on a country road, the bowl extended at a stranger’s door, the shadow slipping between the candlelit windows of distant abbeys—a life of motion without destination, a soul suspended between heaven and earth.