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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
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