vagabondize

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English

Etymology

From vagabond +‎ -ize.

Verb

vagabondize (third-person singular simple present vagabondizes, present participle vagabondizing, simple past and past participle vagabondized)

  1. (intransitive, archaic) To act as the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.
    • 1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes:
      Well, last summer, I was out that way among the lakes that lie sleeping in beauty, and along the streams that flow through the old woods, playing the savage and vagabondizing in a promiscuous way.
    • 1874, Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards, In the Days of My Youth:
      "Because I will not permit you to go idling and vagabondizing about the village."

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