English▸ noun a person who wanders from place to place without a home or job.
▪ informal, dated a rascal; a rogue.
▸ adjective [attributive] having no settled home:
a vagabond poacher.
▸ verb [no object] archaic wander about as or like a vagabond:
he went vagabonding about the world.
– ORIGIN Middle English (originally denoting a criminal): from Old French, or from Latin vagabundus, from vagari ‘wander’.