LOITER

loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around

(verb) be about; “The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square”; “Who is this man that is hanging around the department?”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

loiter (third-person singular simple present loiters, present participle loitering, simple past and past participle loitered)

To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly.

Synonyms: lepak (Malaysia, Singapore), linger, hang around

To remain at a certain place instead of moving on.

(military, aviation) For an aircraft to remain in the air near a target.

Anagrams

• Loiret, toiler, triole

Source: Wiktionary

Loi"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Loitered; p. pr. & vb. n. Loitering.] Etym: [D. leuteren to delay, loiter; cf; Prov. G. lottern to be louse, lotter louse, slack, unsettled, vagrant, OHG. lotar.]

1. To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind. Sir John, you loiter here too long. Shak. If we have loitered, let us quicken our pace. Rogers.

2. To wander as an idle vagrant. [Obs.] Spenser.

Syn.

– To linger; delay; lag; saunter; tarry.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition