Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To wander like a vagabond; play the vagabond: sometimes with an indefinite it. Also spelled vagabondise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb intransitive To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.

Etymologies

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vagabond +‎ -ize

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Examples

  • Sooner will I vagabondize with my violin and fiddle for a bit of bread -- sooner will I break to pieces my instrument and carry dung on the sounding-board than taste a mouthful earned by my only child at the price of her soul and future happiness.

    Love and Intrigue Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • Sooner will I vagabondize with my violin and fiddle for a bit of bread -- sooner will I break to pieces my instrument and carry dung on the sounding-board than taste a mouthful earned by my only child at the price of her soul and future happiness.

    The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • /Vive Dieu/! have you forgotten the times when we used to vagabondize about the streets at night? "

    Catherine De Medici Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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