vagabondingadj.
/ˈvaɡəbɒndɪŋ/ 1. That roams or wanders as, or in the manner of, a vagabond. Also transferred and figurative.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella in Arcadia (1598) 553 I now then staine thy white with vagabunding shame.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xiii. 644 Even vagabonding roagues..have their magnificences and voluptuousnesse.
?1614 W. Drummond Song: It was the time in Poems I..On euery part my vagabonding sight Did cast.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 111 A vagabonding Guest, Transported here and there.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 118 Concerning vagabonding Greekes, and their counterfeit Testimonials.
1881 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 571 The sword..went fairly straight along its vagabonding road.
2. Characterized by roaming or wandering; vagabondish.Not clearly distinct from the verbal noun used attributively.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > as a vagabond or tramp
vagrant1461
loiteringa1533
way-walkinga1535
roguing1566
roguish1572
vagabondical1576
vagabond1585
vagabondinga1586
land-loping1587
vagrom1600
leap-land1614
vagabondial1615
vaguea1627
gangrel1650
vagabondious1661
going1737
gang-there-out1815
tramping1828
vagabondizing1830
pikey1838
beachcombing1845
runagate1877
going-about1886
bummy1890
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > as a vagabond or tramp > characterized by
vagabondinga1586
vagabondish1805
vagabondizing1841
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) v. sig. Rr4 These iewells certainly with their disguisinge sleightes, they haue pilfred in their vagabounding race.
1824 New Monthly Mag. 10 283 Some would spend our prime's best age In vagabonding pilgrimage.
1902 A. B. Paterson Rio Grande's Last Race 92 And through our blood there runs The vagabonding love of change.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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ˈvagabonding
ˈvagabonding n.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage
loitering1530
vacabuncy1535
vagabondry1547
vagabuncy1549
roguing1577
roguery1594
vagabondinga1628
vagrancy1706
vagrance1751
vagabondizing1755
vagabondage1813
vagabondism1822
vag1859
beachcombing1867
trampism1893
hoboism1930
a1628 F. Greville Cælica xii, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 168 Cupid, thou naughtie Boy, when thou wert loathed, Naked and blind, for Vagabunding noted.
1925 H. L. Foster Trop. Tramp with Tourists 148 In years of vagabonding about the far corners of the earth..I have never seen [etc.].
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