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Landloper, -louper (15.., trans. of Bull Pope Martin, 1580), one who runs up and
down the land, a vagabond, adventurer; ad. Du. landlooper, from land, land, and
loopen, to run.
Swinger (1500-20, Dunbar), a rogue, rascal, scoundrel; this is probably a cant term
and perhaps a derivative of e.Flem. swentsen, which Kilian glosses vagari (O.E.D.).
Scaff (1508, from Sc.), to beg or ask for food in a mean or contemptible manner;
perhaps an adoption of the Du. and G. schaffen (also borrowed into M.Sw. as skaffa),
to provide or procure food; this word may have been introduced by soldiers who
served in the Low Country wars, and the bad sense of the word in Sc. is then easily
understood if for ‘to procure food’ is read ‘to live on the country’, or in modern soldiers'
slang ‘to scrounge’.
A term of prostitution is Dant (a. 1529), a profligate woman; perhaps ad. e.mod.Du.
dante, which Kilian glosses ambubara, mulier ignava.
Monkey (1530), the simian animal; the MLG. version