luffare

== Swedish == === Etymology === luffa +‎ -are === Noun === luffare c a tramp, a vagabond, (in a historical context) a hobo (itinerant, usually unemployed person) (figuratively, chiefly in compounds) a traveler (like a backpacker) with several journeys on the same type of transportation (sometimes picking destinations as they go) tågluffare ― person who travels long distances by hopping off and on trains båtluffare ― person who travels from island to island with different boats in an archipelago (figuratively, slang, derogatory) (an invective against) a person somehow reminiscent of a tramp (by being poorly dressed or dirty or having low status or the like); a bum ==== Usage notes ==== Especially of older conditions in (sense 1), similar to tramp in English. Sometimes romanticized, notably in Astrid Lindgren's "Rasmus and the Vagabond" (Rasmus på luffen). ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== (1.): luffarschack, pissluffare, på luffen (“journeying long distances on foot without a destination (of or similar to a luffare)”) (2.): tågluffare, båtluffare ==== Related terms ==== luffa luff ==== See also ==== dagdrivare lodis (“bum, hobo”) lösdrivare (“vagrant”) uteliggare vagabond === References === “luffare”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “luffare”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “luffare”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)