Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who loiters; an idler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who loiters; an idler.
- noun obsolete An idle vagrant; a tramp.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
loiters , one wholingers orhangs around .
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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Drawing nearer, Waggoner, who by name or by sight knew every resident of the town, made up his mind that the loiterer was a stranger.
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I'm a loiterer in the Hallmark aisle of the drugstore, trying to choose a card.
Jenée Desmond-Harris: When Fathers Fall Somewhere Between Awesome and Absentee
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In "Yvon's Paris," Robert Stevens's exhibition-in-a-book, the French photographer Yvon (Pierre Yves Petit) comes across as the ideal flâneur, a loiterer who happens to have brought along his camera.
Graham Robb's "Parisians" and Yvon's Paris, photos of Pierre Yves Petit
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And if I remain here much longer, I shall be just such a loiterer.
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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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And if I remain here much longer, I shall be just such a loiterer.
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Once, the police arrested him under a bridge as a loiterer.
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And if I remain here much longer, I shall be just such a loiterer.
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But due to my vast and eclectic reading habits, I am already familiar with this excerpt from the O'Neill ouevre and consider it a masterpiece, so I can listen to Tony's excellent account of crazed druggies in London in his storied past while allowing my mind to wander a bit -- like to the intriguing headline in the tabloid of a nearby loiterer: "Cat predicts hour of patients 'deaths."
Literary Death Match: Wednesday Night in Washington Square Park
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The curly-haired loiterer I recognized as Will Billingsley, Johns alleged former friend from the track team.
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