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loiterer

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loi·ter  (loitr)
intr.v. loi·tered, loi·ter·ing, loi·ters
1. To stand idly about; linger aimlessly.
2. To proceed slowly or with many stops: loitered all the way home.
3. To delay or dawdle: loiter over a task.
[Middle English loitren, probably from Middle Dutch loteren, to totter, be loose.]
loiter·er n.
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Noun1.loiterer - someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place
lingerer
dawdler, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke, drone - someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
Translations
loiterer
n → Herumtreiber(in) m(f), → Herumlungerer m; (= straggler) → Nachzügler(in) m(f), → Bummelant(in) m(f) (inf)


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The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend.
Fables by Aesop View in context
There were no spectators of our contest except now and again some loiterer in the Gardens who little thought what was the stake for which we played, but cannot we conceive Barbara standing at the ropes and agitatedly cutting down the daisies every time David missed the ball?
The Little White Bird by Barrie, James Matthew View in context
Raffles, walking with the uneasy gait of a town loiterer obliged to do a bit of country journeying on foot, looked as incongruous amid this moist rural quiet and industry as if he had been a baboon escaped from a menagerie.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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