单词 | to loiter with intent |
释义 | > as lemmasto loiter with intent a. In early use: To idle, waste one's time in idleness. Now only with more specific meaning: To linger indolently on the way when sent on an errand or when making a journey; to linger idly about a place; to waste time when engaged in some particular task, to dawdle. Frequently in legal phrase to loiter with intent (to commit a felony). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity trifle?a1400 loiterc1400 tiffc1440 tifflec1440 to pick a salad1520 to play the wanton1529 fiddle1530 dauntc1540 piddle1545 dally?1548 pittlea1568 pingle1574 puddle1591 to thrum caps1594 maginate1623 meecha1625 pudder1624 dabble1631 fanfreluche1653 dawdlea1656 taigle17.. niff-naff1728 tiddle1747 peddle1755 gammer1788 quiddle1789 muddle1791 browse1803 niddle1808 poke1811 fal-lal1818 potter1824 footer1825 putter1827 shaffle1828 to fool about1838 mike1838 piffle1847 mess1853 to muck about1856 tinker1856 bohemianize1857 to fool around1860 frivol1866 june1869 muss1876 to muddle about (also around)1877 slummock1877 dicker1888 moodle1893 to fart about1899 to fart about (or around)1899 plouter1899 futz1907 monkey1916 to arse around1919 to play around1929 to fuck around1931 tool1932 frig1933 boondoggle1935 to muck around1935 to screw around1935 to bugger about1937 to bugger around1939 to piss about1943 to dick around1948 to jerk around1953 fart-arse1954 to fanny around1969 slop1973 dork1982 to twat around (or about)1992 to dick about1996 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > break the law [verb (intransitive)] > carry out criminal activities > loiter with intent to loiter with intent1891 c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 458 Þenne was þe gome so glad of his gay logge, Lys loltrande [Morris conjectures loitrande] þer-inne, lokande to toune. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 311/1 Loytron, or byn ydyl, ocior. 1482 W. Caxton Trevisa's Higden ii. v. 77 He slough caym that loyterd [Trevisa: loted] amonge the busshes. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 613/1 He loytreth aboute lyke a maysterlesse hounde. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 613/2 And you sende hym, he wyll sure loyter somewhere by the waye. c1540 Hye way to Spyttel Ho. 143 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 29 Lowtryng, and wandryng fro place to place. 1553 Primer in Liturgies, etc. Edw. VI (Parker Soc.) 472 Laboured nothing at all, but went abroad loitering idly. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. i. 187 Sir Iohn, you loyter heere too long. View more context for this quotation 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. iv. 349 Some of them doe naught but loiter all the weeke long. 1660 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 359 People might loyter about the streets in sermon time. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 256 A Javelin threw, Which flutt'ring, seemed to loiter as it flew. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 85 Nobody may loyter about in order to attempt it without instant suspicion. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 28 Oct. 233 I loiter in the shop with my needle-work in my hand. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xvi. 254 Officers..loitered in the hall, as in waiting for orders. View more context for this quotation 1855 Ld. Tennyson Brook in Maud & Other Poems 110 I linger by my shingly bars; I loiter round my cresses. 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. 8 These weak old men who loitered about. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 June 3/2 Cabmen have had to pay..fines..for ‘loitering and obstructing’ the roads... To loiter, in cabman's English, means to ply for hire. 1891 Act 54 & 55 Vict. c. 69 §7 The provisions [shall be] applied also to every suspected person or reputed thief loitering about or in any of the said places and with the said intent. 1899 C. Rook Hooligan Nights i. 16 You get lagged for loiterin' wiv intent to commit a felony or some dam nonsense like that. 1952 Economist 26 Jan. 207/3 Montgomery is always suspected of loitering with intent. 1957 M. Gair Sapphires on Wednesday iii. 42 What he was doing was casing the gaff; or, in police terms, ‘loitering with intent to commit a felony’. < as lemmas |
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