A begging vagabond who pretended to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge.
c1540COPLANDHye Way to Spyttel Ho. 391 Cometh not this way Of these rogers, that dayly syng and pray, With Ave Regina, or de profundis? Ibid. 413 There is another company Of the same sect,..To whom these rogers obey as capytayns.
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Date: 2006-08-02 05:55 pm (UTC)A begging vagabond who pretended to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge.
— That from the OED
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Date: 2006-08-04 12:17 pm (UTC)[noun]:
A hard-core grave robber
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