loitered

verbhang around; stroll

Synonyms for loitered

verb hang around; stroll

Antonyms for loitered

Word Origin & History

early 15c., "idle one's time, dawdle over work," from Middle Dutch loteren "be loose or erratic, shake, totter" like a loose tooth or a sail in a storm; in modern Dutch, leuteren "to delay, linger, loiter over one's work." Probably cognate with Old English lutian "lurk," and related to Old English loddere "beggar;" Old High German lotar "empty, vain," luzen "lurk;" German Lotterbube "vagabond, rascal," lauschen "eavesdrop;" Gothic luton "mislead;" Old English lyðre "base, bad, wicked." Related: Loitered; loitering.

Example Sentences for loitered

He loitered about in adjacent doorways, quite like a hired fellow.

Dim ghosts of men and women, most of them, who loitered at this hour in these streets.

Scarcely had they loitered through her lips, ere she was lost in slumber.

He loitered and whistled and hummed while the clerk phoned to the station.

I came here partly by accident, and have loitered from choice.

In this wise were my musings, as I loitered homeward and entered my quarters.

What should we gain, therefore, if we loitered in such company?

A girl sauntered past them as they loitered before their lockers.

The Earl, however, loitered, and did not once seem in haste to be gone.

For days he loitered in vain, the wonder of the Inns and its frequenters.