Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who lingers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who lingers.
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- noun
Agent noun oflinger ; one who lingers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place
Etymologies
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Examples
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Puamana was superstitious, solitary, vain about her looks, never late, indeed fanatical in matters of punctuality, a brisk walker, not a loiterer or a lingerer.
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May I point out that you could be pulled over for flashing your highbeams at the left lane lingerer.
Move over Jersey drivers, Manahan takes on the left-lane lingerers
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On occasion, they may ask a truly recalcitrant lingerer to sign a statement acknowledging the risks of staying behind.
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On occasion, they may ask a truly recalcitrant lingerer to sign a statement acknowledging the risks of staying behind.
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The intransitive very inactive verb is from the 15th-century Scottish dialect noun lungis, meaning “laggard, lingerer,” rooted in the Latin Longinus, the apocryphal name of the soldier who lanced Jesus in the side, and was influenced by longus, “long,” associated with “slow.”
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The intransitive very inactive verb is from the 15th-century Scottish dialect noun lungis, meaning “laggard, lingerer,” rooted in the Latin Longinus, the apocryphal name of the soldier who lanced Jesus in the side, and was influenced by longus, “long,” associated with “slow.”
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Then just as the gangway was about to be withdrawn, it suddenly came over her that a whole ocean was soon to roll between her and those who loved her best, and she clung to Laurie, the last lingerer, saying with a sob ...
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For the listener; for the lingerer with a love glides
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TARRY thou yet, late lingerer in the twilights glory:
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Tarry thou yet, late lingerer in the twilight's glory
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