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▪ I. vagabondizing, vbl. n.|ˈvægəbɒndaɪzɪŋ|
[f. prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb; idle or unconventional wandering; an occasion of this.
1755C. Charke Life 223 The Aversion I had conceived for Vagabondizing..and the good Nature of my Friends in Chepstow put it strongly in my Head to settle there. 1829Sir A. W. Calcott Lett. to Chantrey 18 Aug., A note we have had from the Phillips to join you in a vagabondizing to Hampstead. 1849W. Irving Goldsmith xviii. 203 The Continental tour..had, with poor Goldsmith, been little better than a course of literary vagabondizing. 1853Dickens Bleak Ho. xxi, Then, vagabondising came natural to you, from the beginning?
▪ II. ˈvagabondizing, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
1. That vagabondizes; vagabond.
1830Fraser's Mag. II. 200 We have a pretty considerable..idea of how those vagabondising ragamuffins spend the hours of the day. 1855Househ. Words XII. 168 Her wicked, vagabondising, brandy-drinking..husband.
2. Characterized by, devoted or inclined to, wandering or vagabondage.
1841Fraser's Mag. XXIII. 349 [They] would prefer labour to a vagabondising life. 1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 175 They..fade away with the dawn..and are not beheld any more till vagabondising time begins again. 1883C. F. Woolson Anne 377 July..already felt a strong affection in his capacious vagabondizing heart for the stranger. |