walke-street

English

Etymology

walke (“obsolete spelling of walk”) +‎ street

Noun

walke-street (plural walke-streets)

  1. (obsolete) Someone who wanders aimlessly; a flaneur.
    • 1611, Randle Cotgrave, 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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