English▸ noun a person who wanders from place to place without a home or job:
some tales portray him simply as a vagabond who resided in the woods.
▪ a dishonest or unprincipled person.
▸ adjective [attributive] having no settled home:
a gaggle of vagabond artists and idealistic scholars
a vagabond poacher.
▸ verb [no object] wander about from place to place without a home or job:
he went vagabonding about the world.
– ORIGIN Middle English (originally denoting a criminal): from Old French, or from Latin vagabundus, from vagari ‘wander’.