straggling

verbwander, stray

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verb wander, stray

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Word Origin & History

c.1400, "to wander from the proper path, to rove from one's companions," perhaps from a Scandinavian source (cf. dialectal Norwegian stragla "to walk laboriously"), or a frequentative of straken "to move, go." Specifically of soldiers from 1520s. Related: Straggled; straggling.

Example Sentences for straggling

The offence of straggling is generally considered not serious.

A conjurer must have his time, like a straggling priest in the settlements.

It was tied with the greatest caution, and directed in a straggling hand.

It was a large house; but low and straggling; and unpretending in its exterior.

They were all signed in a strange, straggling hand, by the witness.

His grey hair was straggling into the puddle around his head.

It was written in pencil in large and straggling characters.

His eyes were wash-blue, and his straggling mustache drooped at the corners.

But scarcely a mile from her ran a line of straggling brush.

The lumbermen came and soon there was a straggling little village.

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few

fewer

fewest

rambling

vagabond

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fewer

fewest

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