See Also: vagabond(medicine)
vagabond(1)(dictionary)
vagabond(2)(dictionary)
vagabond(dictionary)
VAGABOND(law)
vagabond's disease(medicine)

vagabond(1) (iou)



vagabond noun & adjective. ME.
[Old & mod. French, or from Latin vagabundus, from vagari wander: cf. VAGRANT.]
A. noun.
Orig., a criminal. Later, a disreputable, idle, or worthless person; a rascal, a rogue. ME.
D. Pae What are you lying there for, you lazy vagabond?
A homeless person who wanders about from place to place; spec. an itinerant beggar, a tramp, a vagrant. L15.
vagabond's disease, vagabond's skin a dark leather-like condition of the skin caused by long-term scratching and exposure.
b. A nomad. rare. M18.
More fully vagabond hat. = SLOUCH noun 3. E20.
b. adjective.
Roaming or wandering from place to place without settled habitation; leading a wandering life; nomadic. LME.
b. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a homeless wanderer. L16.
fig. Roving, straying; not subject to control or restraint. LME.
F. Quarles My heart is..a vagabond and unstable heart.
Leading an unsettled, irregular, or disreputable life; good-for-nothing, worthless; dissolute. L15.
Vaga'bondia noun (US) the realm or world of vagabonds L19.
vaga'bondical adjective (rare) roaming, wandering; vagabondish: L16.
vagabondish adjective pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling a vagabond or vagabonds E19.
vagabondism noun = VAGABONDAGE 1 E19.
vagabondize verb intrans. & (now rare or obsolete) trans. (with it) live or wander as or like a vagabond; roam or travel in a free, idle, or unconventional manner: E17.
vagabondry noun (now rare) = VAGABONDAGE 1 M16.