n. One of the poorer classes of Neapolitans; beggars.
n. Playboy, someone who does not work and devotes himself to a life without commitments or responsibilities.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. One of those members of the poorer classes in Naples who earn a scanty subsistence as messengers, porters, and occasional laborers, or by fishing, but have no fixed habitation, and spend the most of their time in idling and begging.
Word Usage
"Transteverin is the man of the faubourgs, its hammal is the market-porter, its lazzarone is the pegre, its cockney is the native of Ghent."