loiter

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈlɔɪtə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈlɔɪtɚ/|[ˈlɔɪɾɚ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A standing or strolling about without any aim or purpose.
    — Oh, Sir, we just got up in the morning and had a loiter and a pipe on the green; then we got our breakfasts; […]
动词 v.
  1. To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly.
    — For some reason, they discourage loitering outside the store, but encourage it inside.
  2. To stroll about without any aim or purpose, to ramble, to wander. archaic
    — With weary steps I loiter on, ⁠Tho’ always under alter’d skies ⁠The purple from the distance dies, My prospect and horizon gone.
  3. To remain at a certain place instead of moving on.
    — The dancing, which had been suspended, now recommenced with additional animation, and De Candale claimed Francesca's hand; but the rooms were crowded, and they stood for some time loitering on one of the terraces.
  4. For an aircraft to remain in the air near a target.

词形变化

loiters present,singular,third-person loitering participle,present loitered participle,past loitered past loiters plural

词汇关系

近义词
arse about arse around bludge bum around cabbage clown around dally dawdle dick about dick around diddle dilly-dally dretch drumble faff faff about faff around fanny about fanny around fart about fart around fiddle about fiddle around fool about fool around footle forslow goof around goof off hang about hang around hang out horse around idle jerk off lallygag lamp laze laze about laze around linger loaf loaf about loaf around loiter lollop lollygag mess around mill about mill around muck about muck around piddle pingle stand by tarry tool around waste time while
反义词
energize leave make a move scraffle scramble take action work
上位词
move slowly
下位词
dandle daydream doodle doze doze off fall asleep lounge nap procrastinate relax space out stone trifle tune out veg out wander woolgather zone zone out
衍生词
antiloitering Floyder loiterature loiterer loiteringly loitering munition loiter munition loitering → loiteringly loiter-sack loiter time
相关词
build castles in the air time bandit time burglar time thief idler lazy shirk

词源

词源 1
From Middle English loitren, from Middle Dutch loteren ("to shake, wag, wobble"; > modern Dutch leuteren (“to dawdle, ramble”)), ultimately connected with a frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *lūtaną (“to bend, stoop, cower, shrink from, decline”), see lout. Cognate with Dutch leuteren (“to dawdle”), Alemannic German lottern (“to wobble”), German lottern (“live a slovenly life”). More at lout, little.
词源 2
From Middle English loitren, from Middle Dutch loteren ("to shake, wag, wobble"; > modern Dutch leuteren (“to dawdle, ramble”)), ultimately connected with a frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *lūtaną (“to bend, stoop, cower, shrink from, decline”), see lout. Cognate with Dutch leuteren (“to dawdle”), Alemannic German lottern (“to wobble”), German lottern (“live a slovenly life”). More at lout, little.
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