a. [f. as prec.]
1. Pertaining or appropriate to, characteristic of, a vagabond or vagabonds.
1816. J. Scott, Vis. Paris (ed. 5), 97. All this has a shew of business, though of a light vagabondish kind.
1868. Miss Braddon, Birds of Prey, II. i. There was a vagabondish kind of foppery in his costume.
1834. Harper’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.
1827. Vermont Statesman, 18 April, 3/2. He [Morgan] appears, from all statements, to have been a vagabondish character, and very likely to lend himself to any such infamous project.
1854. Grace Greenwood, 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.
1881. Times, 5 July, 9/5. This vain and vagabondish mendicant making up his mind to shoot General Garfield because he had not got a post.
