landlouper means A vagabond; a vagrant. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “landlouper” is a great word
LANDLOUPER — [Noun] A footloose vagabond who roves the countryside without a fixed abode or settled purpose. From Dutch landloper (literally 'land-runner'), merged with native English landleaper; equivalent to land + leaper. First attested in English in the 1540s. Unlike "vagrant," a general socio-legal term for one without home or work, or "itinerant," which implies purposeful travel for trade, a landlouper is a creature of pure, rootless peregrination. He is the silhouette on the crest of a rain-swept moor, the boot scuffing dust on a lane between endless fields, the shadow passing a sleeping village at dusk—a human embodiment of the restless distance between places, a testament that the world remains wide enough to be lost in.
noun
- A vagabond; a vagrant.“Bands of landloupers had been employed[…]”