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Vagabond vs Vagabondish - What's the difference?

vagabond | vagabondish |

As adjectives the difference between vagabond and vagabondish

is that vagabond is floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro while vagabondish is like a vagabond.

As a noun vagabond

is a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.

As a verb vagabond

is to roam, as a vagabond.

vagabond

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
  • One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a hobo.
  • * Bible, Genesis iv. 12
    • A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Hypernyms

    * person

    Related terms

    * extravagant

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To roam, as a vagabond

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
  • * Milton
    • To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.
  • * 1959 , Jack London, The Star Rover
    • Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we.
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    vagabondish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like a vagabond.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1868, author=Robert Black, title=A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But, in the same domains and at the end of the same century, his grandson William VII. was the most vagabondish , dissolute, and violent of princes; and his morals were so scandalous that the bishop of Poitiers, after having warned him to no purpose, considered himself forced to excommunicate him. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1931, author=Vachel Lindsay, title=The Congo and Other Poems, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It is hardly necessary, perhaps, to mention Mr. Lindsay's loyalty to the people of his place and hour, or the training in sympathy with their aims and ideals which he has achieved through vagabondish wanderings in the Middle West. }}