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loiterer|ˈlɔɪtərə(r)|
Forms: 6 leuterar, leutterer, loitreer, loyterour, -(er)rer, 6–7 loyterar, -er, 8– loiterer.
[a. Du. leuterer: see loiter v. and -er1.]
One who loiters (see senses of the vb.); † a vagabond, ‘sturdy beggar’.
1530Palsgr. 240/2 Loyterar, trvandeu. 1547Act 1 Edw. VI, c. 3 §1 The same Justices shall cawse such Slave, or loyterer to bee marked on the forhed. 1567Harman Caveat (1869) 22 These lousey leuterars. Ibid. 27 An ydell leuterar. Ibid. 87 Lasy lewd Leutterers. 1588in Norfolk Antiq. Misc. (1883) II. 329 Paid to Burwell and his loyterrers for vj dayes' woorke, vs. viijd. 1612S. Rid Art Juggling B 1 b, Many of our English Loyterers ioined with them, and in time learned their craft and cosening. 1640–1Kirkcudbr. War-Comm. Min. Bk. (1855) 84 David Macmollan, loyterar, being convenit for saying, that [etc.]. 1684G. S. Anglorum Spec. 196 Th. Tusser was a Speculative Husbandman, but a Practical Loyterer in Agriculture. 1723Swift Country Life 33 The loiterers quake, no corner hides them. 1758Johnson Idler No. 14 ⁋9 The loiterer..makes appointments which he never keeps. 1810Scott Lady of L. ii. xxi, Come, loiterer, come! 1872Black Adv. Phaeton ii. 14 There are still a few loiterers on the pavement. 1896A. E. Housman Shropsh. Lad xxxix. Spring will not wait the loiterer's time Who keeps so long away. |