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vagabondish, a.|ˈvægəbɒndɪʃ|
[f. as prec.]
1. Pertaining or appropriate to, characteristic of, a vagabond or vagabonds.
1805C. Wilmot Let. 4 Aug. in Londonderry & Hyde Russ. Jrnls. (1934) II. 165 His appearance was rather Vagabondish at the first glimpse. 1816J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) 97 All this has a shew of business, though of a light vagabondish kind. 1868M. E. Braddon Birds of Prey ii. i, There was a vagabondish kind of foppery in his costume. 1884Harper's Mag. May 871 The vagabondish spirit engendered by their long..journey.
2. Of the nature of a vagabond; somewhat like a vagabond in conduct or life.
1854Greenwood Haps & Mishaps 105 By far the larger number of those who apply to the traveller for charity are vagabondish in their instincts and indolent in their habits. 1881Times 5 July 9 This vain and vagabondish mendicant. |