vagabondize

English

Etymology

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^[1]:

     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^[2]:

     "Because I will not permit you to go idling and vagabondizing about the village."

References

• “vagabondize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.