hodophant - meaning and definition. What is hodophant
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hodophant      
A person who with an unkempt, scabrous appearance and a shambling gait goes begging from car to car at a stoplight.
The word derives from the Greek hodos, road or way, and phanein, to appear.
It echoes the word sycophant.
The stoplights of San Juan are plagued with hodophants.