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Loitering definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LOIT'ERING, ppr. Lingering; delaying; moving slowly.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Loiter Loi"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Loitered; p. pr. & vb. n. Loitering.] [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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Dilatory, lingering.

Moby Thesaurus

Micawberish, backward, coquetry, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, dawdling, delaying, dilatoriness, dilatory, dillydallying, dolce far niente, dragging, easygoing, fiddling, flirtation, fooling, fooling around, foot-dragging, goofing off, idling, jerking off, kidding around, lackadaisical, lag, laggard, lagging, lax, lazing, lazy, lingering, loafing, lolling, lollygagging, lounging, messing around, monkeying, monkeying around, mopery, piddling, playing, playing around, pottering, procrastinating, procrastination, procrastinative, procrastinatory, puttering, remiss, shilly-shallying, shuffling, slack, slow, sluggish, smattering, tarrying, tinkering, toying, trifling