walke-street
English
Etymology
walke (“obsolete spelling of walk”) + street
Noun
walke-street (plural walke-streets)
- (obsolete) Someone who wanders aimlessly; a flaneur.
- 1611, Cotgrave, Randle, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, page BAT-BAT:
- Bateur de pavez. An idle, or continuall walke-ſtreet; a jetter abroad in the ſtreets; one that ſees the towne ſerued when honeſt men are in bed; a laſciuious, or unthrifty, night-walker, generally, any looſe or mad youth, diſſolute or diſorderly yonker.
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Anagrams
- sweet-talker