vagabonding
adjective, verb
vagabonding is an adjective meaning “Wandering, unfixed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-G-A-B-O-N-D-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does vagabonding mean?
adjective
- 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
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of vagabond
I've been vagabonding across Africa for six months.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vagabonding
- more vagabonding comparative
- most vagabonding superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vagabonding?
Vagabonding appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does vagabonding come from?
From vagabond + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).