单词 | vagabonding |
释义 | vagabondingadj. 1. That roams or wanders as, or in the manner of, a vagabond. Also transferred and figurative. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella in Arcadia (1598) 553 I now then staine thy white with vagabunding shame. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xiii. 644 Even vagabonding roagues..have their magnificences and voluptuousnesse. ?1614 W. Drummond Song: It was the time in Poems I..On euery part my vagabonding sight Did cast. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 111 A vagabonding Guest, Transported here and there. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 118 Concerning vagabonding Greekes, and their counterfeit Testimonials. 1881 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 571 The sword..went fairly straight along its vagabonding road. 2. Characterized by roaming or wandering; vagabondish.Not clearly distinct from the verbal noun used attributively. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > as a vagabond or tramp vagrant1461 loiteringa1533 way-walkinga1535 roguing1566 roguish1572 vagabondical1576 vagabond1585 vagabondinga1586 land-loping1587 vagrom1600 leap-land1614 vagabondial1615 vaguea1627 gangrel1650 vagabondious1661 going1737 gang-there-out1815 tramping1828 vagabondizing1830 pikey1838 beachcombing1845 runagate1877 going-about1886 bummy1890 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > as a vagabond or tramp > characterized by vagabondinga1586 vagabondish1805 vagabondizing1841 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) v. sig. Rr4 These iewells certainly with their disguisinge sleightes, they haue pilfred in their vagabounding race. 1824 New Monthly Mag. 10 283 Some would spend our prime's best age In vagabonding pilgrimage. 1902 A. B. Paterson Rio Grande's Last Race 92 And through our blood there runs The vagabonding love of change. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasˈvagabonding ˈvagabonding n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage loitering1530 vacabuncy1535 vagabondry1547 vagabuncy1549 roguing1577 roguery1594 vagabondinga1628 vagrancy1706 vagrance1751 vagabondizing1755 vagabondage1813 vagabondism1822 vag1859 beachcombing1867 trampism1893 hoboism1930 a1628 F. Greville Cælica xii, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 168 Cupid, thou naughtie Boy, when thou wert loathed, Naked and blind, for Vagabunding noted. 1925 H. L. Foster Trop. Tramp with Tourists 148 In years of vagabonding about the far corners of the earth..I have never seen [etc.]. < adj.a1586 as lemmas |
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