loiterer

loiterer: noun

One who loiters, one who lingers or hangs around.

Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moments notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.

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Synonyms:

Loiterer — Loi ter*er, n. 1. One who loiters; an idler. [1913 Webster] 2. An idle vagrant; a tramp. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
loiterer — loiter ► VERB ▪ stand around or move without apparent purpose. ● loiter with intent Cf. ↑loiter with intent DERIVATIVES loiterer noun. ORIGIN perhaps from Dutch loteren wag about … English terms dictionary
loiterer — noun see loiter … New Collegiate Dictionary
loiterer — See loiter. * * * … Universalium
loiterer — Synonyms and related words: clock watcher, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, diddler, dillydallier, do nothing, dolittle, doodler, drone, faineant, foot dragger, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof off, idler, laggard, lie abed, lingerer,… … Moby Thesaurus
loiterer — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun One that lags: dawdler, dilly dallier, lag, laggard, lagger, lingerer, poke, procrastinator, straggler, tarrier. Informal: slowpoke. See FAST … English dictionary for students
loiterer — loiÂ·terÂ·er || lÉ”ÉªtÉ™rÉ™(r) n. one who wastes time, idler, loafer … English contemporary dictionary
loiterer — n. Lingerer, idler, laggard … New dictionary of synonyms
loiterer — See: loiter … English dictionary
loiterer — Kali, kau īpuka … English-Hawaiian dictionary

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