Word Meanings - DRAZEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A slut; a vagabond wench. Same as Drossel. Hudibras.

WENCHLESS
Being without a wench. Shak.
VAGABONDAGE
The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
VAGABONDISM
Vagabondage.
DROSSEL
A slut; a hussy; a drazel. Warner.
VAGABONDIZE
To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.
HUDIBRASTIC
Similar to, or in the style of, the poem "Hudibras," by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse. Macaulay.
WENCH
weak, tottering; cf. AS. wencle a maid, a daughter, wencel a pupil, orphan, wincel, winclu, children, offspring, wencel weak, wancol 1. A young woman; a girl; a maiden. Shak. Lord and lady, groom and wench. Chaucer. That they may send again My
WENCHER
One who wenches; a lewd man.
VAGABONDRY
Vagabondage.
VAGABOND
1. Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering. "Vagabond exile." Shak. 2. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro. To heaven their prayers Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds Blown vagabond