Meaning of Truant | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An idle or lazy person; an idler.
2. A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative), a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.
   specifically
3. Synonym of sturdy beggar (“a person who was fit and able to work, but lived as a beggar or vagrant instead”); hence, a worthless person; a rogue, a scoundrel.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“For my part I may ſpeake it to my ſhame, / I haue a truant beene to Chiualrie, […]”

“You loiter, vvhile the Spoils are born avvay: / Our Ships are laden vvith the Trojan Store, / And you like Truants come too late aſhore.”

“[S]ince I pluckt Geeſe, plaide Trevvant, and vvhipt Top, I knevv not vvhat 'tvvas to be beaten, till lately.”

“[…] I knovve you are no truant, / But vvhat is your affaire in Elſonoure?”

“The village maſter taught his little ſchool; / A man ſevere he vvas, and ſtern to vievv, / I knevv him vvell, and every truant knevv; […]”

“Hang him truant, theres no true drop of bloud in him to be truly toucht vvith loue, if he be ſadde, he vvantes money.”

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