Etymology

landlouper

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Dutch landloper
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  1. Dutch · borrowed fromlandloper
  2. English todaylandlouper

Borrowed from Dutch landloper (literally “land-runner”). Merged with native English landleaper; equivalent to land + leaper.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.