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vagabondise

vagabondise is the alternative form of vagabondize.

Meaning of vagabondize

Verb

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

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To act as the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.
    • 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.1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes

Forms of vagabondise

third-person singular presentvagabondises
present participlevagabondising
past participlevagabondised
pastvagabondised

Origin of vagabondise

From vagabond + -ise.

Questions about vagabondise

What is vagabondise the alternative form of?
Vagabondise is the alternative form of vagabondize.

Words near vagabondise in the dictionary

  1. vagabond
  2. vagabondage
  3. vagabonded
  4. vagabondical
  5. vagabonding
  6. vagabondise
  7. vagabondised
  8. vagabondises
  9. vagabondish
  10. vagabondising
  11. vagabondism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vagabondise (page history and authors); vagabondize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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