From straggle + -er.
straggler (plural stragglers)
- One who departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which they belong.
2021 May 28, Sam Roberts, “Faye Schulman Dies; Fought Nazis With a Rifle and a Camera”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:She recounted her life in pre-World War II Eastern Europe and how a ragtag band of Red Army stragglers, escaped prisoners of war and Jewish and gentile Resistance fighters — including some women — harassed the Germans behind the Wehrmacht’s front lines in the forests and swamps of what is now Belarus.
- One who falls behind the rest, for example in a race.
- One who roams without any settled direction.
- A migratory animal found away from its usual range.
- A roving vagabond.
- Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
- Something that stands alone or by itself.
one who departs from the direct or proper course
- Dutch: afwijkeling
- Finnish: eksyjä, harhailija (fi)
- French: traînard (fr)
- German: Nachzügler (de) m, Nachzüglerin (de) f, Versprengter (de) m, Versprengte (de) f, Bummler m
- Irish: scatachán m, scatacháin m pl, scatachánach f, scatachánacha f pl, scatacháin pl, néiléir m, néiléirí m pl, néiléreach f, néiléreacha f pl, néiléirí pl
- Portuguese: desgarrado m, desgarrados m pl, desgarrada f, desgarradas f pl, desgarrados pl
- Serbo-Croatian: lutalica (sh)
- Turkish: geride kalan
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one who falls behind the rest
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 落伍者 (zh)
- Dutch: achterblijver (nl)
- Finnish: hidastelija, mattimyöhäinen (fi), maijamyöhäinen (fi)
- French: traînard (fr) m
- German: Nachzügler (de) m, Nachzüglerin (de) f
- Irish: codhlatachán m, codhlatacháin m pl, codhlatachánach f, codhlatachánacha f pl, codhlatacháin pl, straigléir m, straigléirí m pl, straigléireach f, straigléireacha f pl, straigléirí pl
- Maori: whakatakere
- Polish: maruder (pl) m, maruderka f
- Portuguese: atrasado (pt) m, atrasados m pl, atrasada f, atrasadas (pt) f pl, atrasados pl, lanterninho m, lanterninhos m pl, lanterninha (pt) f, lanterninhas f pl, lanterninhas pl
- Russian: отставший (ru) (otstavšij)
- Serbo-Croatian: odlutali (sh) m
- Spanish: rezagado (es)
- Swedish: eftersläntrare c
- Turkish: geride kalan
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one who roams without any settled direction
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 游荡者
- Dutch: zwerver (nl)
- Finnish: vaeltaja (fi), harhailija (fi)
- German: Bummler m
- Irish: fánachán m, fánacháin m pl, fánachánach f, fánachánacha f pl, fánacháin pl, straigléir m, straigléirí m pl, straigléireach f, straigléireacha f pl, straigléirí pl
- Portuguese: errante (pt) m, errantes m pl, errante (pt) f, errantes f pl, errantes pl
- Serbo-Croatian: lutalica (sh) m
- Turkish: avare (tr)
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a migratory animal found away from its usual range
a roving vagabond
- Dutch: schooier (nl)
- Finnish: kulkuri (fi)
- German: Landstreicher (de) m, Landstreicherin (de) f, Vagabund (de) m
- Irish: fánaí m, fánaithigh m pl, fánaí f, fánaithigh f pl, fánaithigh pl, jaingléir m, jaingléirí m pl, jaingléireach f, jaingléireacha f pl, jaingléirí pl, straigléir m, straigléirí m pl, straigléireach f, straigléireacha f pl, straigléirí pl
- Portuguese: vagabundo errante m, vagabundos errantes m pl, vagabunda errante f, vagabundas errantes f pl, vagabundos errantes pl
- Serbo-Croatian: lutalica (sh) m
- Spanish: vago (es) m
- Turkish: aylak (tr), serseri (tr)
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an exuberant growth
- Dutch: uitwas (nl)
- Irish: fás rábach m, fáis rábacha m pl, fás rábach f, fáis rábacha f pl, fáis rábacha pl, scíontachán m, scíontacháin m pl, scíontachánach f, scíontachánacha f pl, scíontacháin pl
- Portuguese: crescimento exuberante m, crescimentos exuberantes m pl, crescimento exuberante f, crescimentos exuberantes f pl, crescimentos exuberantes pl
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something that stands alone or by itself