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Definition of Loiter
1. Verb. Be about. "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"
Generic synonyms: Be
Specialized synonyms: Lurch, Prowl
Derivative terms: Lingerer, Loiterer, Lounger
Definition of Loiter
1. v. i. To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
Definition of Loiter
1. Verb. To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly; to linger; to hang around. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Loiter
1. to stand idly about [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loiter
Literary usage of Loiter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contested Etymologies in the Dictionary of the Rev. W. W. Skeat by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1882)
"Thus to loiter is to act like a bou/.”—Skeat. The attitude of stooping, ...
Moreover, it would be a very unusual change of vowel from lout to loiter in the ..."
2. The Poems of Charles Fenno Hoffman by Charles Fenno Hoffman (1873)
"WHERE DOST THOU loiter, SPRING? WHERE dost thou loiter, Spring, Whilst it behoveth
Thee to cease wandering Where thy breeze ..."
3. Hawthorn and Lavender, with Other Verses by William Ernest HENLEY (1901)
"Why do you linger and loiter, O most sweet ? Why do you falter and delay, Now
that the insolent, high-blooded May Comes greeting and to greet ? ..."
4. Hawthorn and Lavender, with Other Verses by William Ernest Henley (1901)
"Entreat, and fleet Life gaudily, and so play out their play, Even with the
triumphing May— The young-eyed, smiling, irresistible May I Why do you loiter and ..."
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