vagabonding

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adjective

Wandering, unfixed.

“I've been vagabonding across Africa for six months.”

OriginEnglish vagabond ← Old French vagabond →
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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of vagabond

    I've been vagabonding across Africa for six months.

adjectivevagabonding (comparative more vagabonding, superlative most vagabonding)

comparative more vagabonding · superlative most vagabonding

  1. Wandering, unfixed.

    Oh God, what bond or dutie is it that we owe not to our Soveragne Creators benignitie, in that he hath beene pleased to cleare and enfranchise our beliefe from those vagabonding and arbitrary devotions, and fixt it upon the eternall base of his holy word?

    , II.12

Origin

  1. Old Frenchvagabond
  2. Englishvagabond
  3. Englishvagabonding

From vagabond + -ing.

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APA

vagabonding. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vagabonding

MLA

“vagabonding.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vagabonding. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vagabonding,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vagabonding.

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