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vagabondize, v.|ˈvægəbɒndaɪz|
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
intr. To live, wander, or go about as, or in the manner of, a vagabond; to roam or travel in a free, idle, unconstrained, or unconventional manner; to play the vagabond. a. With indefinite it.
1611Cotgr., Roder, to roame, wander, vagabondize it. 1776Ann. Reg., Charact. 35/2 After thus vagabondizing it for some time, he was discovered by the consul. 1861Reade Cloister & H. liii, How much earlier he would have found her by staying quietly at Tergou, than by vagabondizing it all over Holland.
b. In ordinary use. Freq. with advs. and preps.
1794A. M. Bennett Ellen III. 39 No modest woman would go vagabondizing about the country. 1795tr. Mercier's Fragm. Pol. & Hist. II. 223 The streets would be filled with wretches, vagabondizing round the palaces of sloth. 1832Westm. Rev. July 38 Peoples among whom his fortunes cast him while vagabondizing in the remotest corners of the globe. 1868Holme Lee B. Godfrey xxvi, That..scapegrace..had vagabondised all over Europe as a newspaper correspondent. 1894D. C. Murray Making of Novelist 87, I..acquired a taste for vagabondising about among the poor.
fig.1864M. E. Braddon Doctor's Wife iii, The surgeon's thoughts went vagabondizing away from the little coffee-room. 1868― Birds of Prey v. iii, My thoughts went vagabondising off to Charlotte.
Hence ˈvagabondizer.
1860All Year Round No. 42. 362 The itinerant traveller and poetical or artistic vagabondiser. |