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 ; towander about inidleness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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
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/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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