Loafers

Tramps, thieves, and the neʹer-do-well. Idle fellows who get their living by expedients; chevaliers dʹindustrie. (German, läufer, a runner; Dutch, looper.)

“Until the differentiation of the labourer from the loafer takes place, the unemployed question can never be properly dealt with.”—Nineteenth Century, December, 1893, p. 855.