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vagabondize

vagabondize verb: to act as the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.

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
    • "Because I will not permit you to go idling and vagabondizing about the village."1874, Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards, In the Days of My Youth

Forms of vagabondize

third-person singular presentvagabondizes
present participlevagabondizing
past participlevagabondized
pastvagabondized

Origin of vagabondize

From vagabond + -ize.

Words formed from vagabondize

Questions about vagabondize

What does vagabondize mean?
Vagabondize means to act as the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.
What part of speech is vagabondize?
Vagabondize is a verb.
What is the past tense of vagabondize?
The past tense of vagabondize is vagabondized.

Words near vagabondize in the dictionary

  1. vagabondish
  2. vagabondising
  3. vagabondism
  4. vagabondisms
  5. vagabondismus
  6. vagabondize
  7. vagabondized
  8. vagabondizer
  9. vagabondizers
  10. vagabondizes
  11. vagabondizing

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