strandloper means beachcomber Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
STRANDLOPER — [Noun] A coastal forager, historically one of the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa who subsisted by scavenging the shoreline for sustenance and salvage. Borrowed from Afrikaans strandloper, from Dutch strand ("beach") + loper ("walker, runner"). Unlike "beachcomber," which suggests a leisured collector of curios, or "forager," which implies a broader search across inland landscapes, strandloper denotes a life defined by the tide's strict economy. It is the figure bent against the salt-wind, turning over kelp for a shellfish supper; it is the practiced eye testing the heft of a salt-bleached plank; it is the patient reading of a storm's story in the wrack line's arrangement of shell and bone—a testament to existence gleaned from the ocean's indifferent regurgitations.