Reverse Dictionary: LOITER

ADJECTIVES
1566 ► inclined to loiter; sluggish → LOITEROUS → obs.
1702 ► lagging, hanging back, loitering, slow → LAGGARD 
1790 ► untidy, slatternly; lounging, loitering; esp. used of a woman → TANGLING → Eng. dial.
1878 ► idle, lazy, trifling, loitering → HALLACKING → HALLOCKING → Eng. dial.
1898 ► slow-moving, loitering → LAGGING → Sc.
1902 ► always behindhand, loitering → LAGGIE-LAST → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 ► always behind, loitering → LAG-MA-LAST → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1903 ► trifling; loitering → NAFFLING → Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► untidy, slatternly; lounging, loitering; esp. used of a woman → TANGLY → Eng. dial. (Bk.)

NOUNS
1894 ► a hanging about, wandering idly → BANGLING → Eng. dial.

NOUNS, PERSON
1425 ► a person who loiters aimlessly; a loafer; also, an opportunist poacher or pilferer; a petty thief → MOOCHER → MOUCHER → chiefly colloq.
1509 ► a lazy loiterer who might work, but would not, preferring to depend on the charity of religious houses → ABBEY-LUBBER 
1542 ► a wanderer; a wayfarer; a worthless vagabond; an idler; a loiterer → GADLING → obs.
1577 ► a lazy, idle fellow; a loiterer; a loafer → SLOWBACK → obs.
1594 ► a lazy, loitering fellow; an idler → LOITER-SACK → obs.
1706 ► one who loiters or lies hidden in a suspicious manner → LURCHER
1746 ► a foolish, idle person; a lazy loiterer → TROANT → Eng. dial. obs.
19C  ► a loiterer; the hindmost or last → LAGABAG → Eng. dial.
1808 ► one who lags behind; a lingerer, a loiterer → LAGGARD 
1825 ► an idle loiterer → HAKING FELLOW → Sc.
1866 ► a laggard, a loiterer, one who lingers or falls behind → LAG → Sc.
1868 ► an idler, a loiterer → GAITLING → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1880 ► a lazy person, a loiterer → CRAWLER
1889 ► an aimless person, a loiterer → HANGER-AROUND → sl. 
1900 ► a loitering child → DALLY-CRAW → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► a loiterer or slow-coach → DAWDLEKUM → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► an idle, dawdling, loitering woman → DILL-DUCK → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► one who loiters and is slow at commencing work, etc. → GAKEY → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 ► a loiterer, a lingerer; the last to arrive & → LAGGY → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 ► a slow, dilatory person; a loiterer; one who is habitually late or behindhand → LAG-LAST → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 ► a slow, dilatory person; a loiterer; one who is habitually late or behindhand → LAG-TAIL → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► a loiterer, a procrastinator → SAUTHER-POKE → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1915 ► a person who loiters aimlessly; a loafer → MOOTCHER → colloq.
1923 ► orig. an idle young swaggerer who hung around drug-store soda fountains trying to press girls; one who loiters or loafs on street corners, etc. → DRUG-STORE COWBOY → US sl.
1938 ► an idler, a loafer, a loiterer → HANGAROUNDER → Amer. dial.
1950 ► an idler, a loafer, a loiterer → HANGER-ON → Amer. dial.
1965 ► an idler, a loafer, a loiterer → HANGER → Amer. dial.
1965 ► an idle, worthless person; a loafer; a loiterer → NO-ACCOUNT → Amer. dial.
1965 ► an idle, worthless person; a loafer, a loiterer → NO-COUNT → Amer. dial.
1965 ► an idle, worthless person; a loafer, a loiterer → NO-COUNT BUM → Amer. dial.
1966 ► a loiterer, a lounger, one who gads about → LOAFERER → Amer. dial.
1967 ► an idler, a loafer, a loiterer → HANGAROUND → Amer. dial.
1970 ► a person who loiters about with nothing to do → HANG-OUT → Amer. dial.
1989 ► a loiterer; one who spends a lot of time at a place → HANG → sl., orig. US college 

VERBS
1400 ► to be careless about, to neglect, to slight; to be negligent, to lag, to loiter → LACHE → Sc. & N. Eng. obs.
1577 ► to hesitate or hold back; to be reluctant or tardy; to loiter → HANG THE GROIN 
1596 ► to hesitate or hold back; to be reluctant or tardy; to loiter → HANG AN ARSE 
17C  ► to loiter, to hold back → HANG THE ARSE → colloq.
1620 ► to lag, to linger, to loiter → LAGGER → obs.
1664 ► to idle, to loaf, to loiter, to fool about, to act irresponsibly, to trifle → ARSE AROUND 
1700 ► to linger, to tarry, to delay; to dally, to loiter → TAIGLE → TEAGLE → Sc.
1746 ► to be absent, esp. from home; to loiter → LACK → Eng. dial.
1756 ► to idle, to trifle, to waste time; to potter about; to move or act slowly or in a slovenly manner; to saunter; to loiter → DAIDLE → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1758 ► to loiter or hang about aimlessly → MUZZ → sl., obs.
1785 ► to wander about aimlessly and idly; to loiter, to lounge; to hang about with intent to eavesdrop → ACHE → AIK → AKE → HAAK → HAIG → HAIK → HAKE → Eng. dial.
1791 ► to loiter, to linger about; to dally, to tarry, to stop → HANKER → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1796 ► to trifle away time; to potter about; to loiter; to act foolishly → NAFFLE → Sc. & Eng. dial.
19C  ► to loiter at work → DERN → Sc.
19C  ► to loiter, to lounge about; to shirk work → SHAG-BAG → Eng. dial.
19C  ► to loiter, to idle, to waste time → TIDDYTOITY → Eng. dial.
E19  ► to loiter, to waste time → HAVE A MIKE → sl.
1804 ► to go about in a feeble, languid way; to hang about, to loiter, to wander about aimlessly → HAINGLE → HINGLE → Sc.
1805 ► to linger, loiter, tarry → DWINGLE → Sc.
1810 ► to loiter aimlessly, to idle → COOZE → Eng. dial. obs.
​1818 ► to walk slowly, to saunter, to loiter; to walk aimlessly; to go about in a feeble or infirm state → DACKER → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1825 ► to be slow or dilatory; to dawdle, to loiter, to procrastinate → LATCH → Sc.
1837 ► to loiter, to idle, to lounge; to gad about → LOAFER → Amer. dial.
M19  ► to loiter about, to dawdle → AIR ONE’S HEELS → sl.
1851 ► to loiter, to dawdle; to move slowly and without energy → DRIMBLE → Eng. dial.
1854 ► to idle, to loiter or trail around aimlessly → MULLOCK → Eng. dial.
1854 ► to trifle, to idle, to loiter → TAFFLE → Eng. dial.
1858 ► to rest, to idle, to loiter, to loaf, to take it easy, to relax → LAY UP → Amer. dial.
1859 ► to loiter, to hang around idly or shirk work → MIKE → Brit. sl.
1866 ► to loiter, to linger, to wait about → HANKLE → Eng. dial.
1866 ► to loiter, to linger, to saunter → LAVEER → Sc.
1866 ► to walk in a leisurely, careless manner; to saunter, to loiter → STOY → Sc.
1868 ► to loiter, to idle about; to shirk work → SCOW-BANK → Eng. dial.
1870 ► to loiter, to lounge, fool around; to chatter, to talk idly; to gad about → LALLYGAG → LOLLYGAG → Amer. dial.
1878 ► to move about aimlessly, to loiter, to lounge; to stand gaping and staring → AWM → HAWM → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1879 ► to loiter, to dawdle → DINGLE → Eng. dial.
1881 ► to loiter behind others on a road; to dawdle, to linger → DRANGLE → Sc.
1881 ► to waste time, to loiter, to hesitate → DRILLY-DRALLY → Eng. dial.
1883 ► to hesitate or hold back; to be reluctant or tardy; to loiter → HANG A LEG 
1883 ► to put off, to delay; to tarry, to loiter → PARRY → Sc.
1883 ► to loiter → YAPE → Eng. dial.
1884 ► to waste time, to loiter, to do nothing in particular → MESS OVER → Eng. dial.
1889 ► to dawdle, to loiter, to waste time; to trifle, to potter about → TANTLE → Eng. dial.
1892 ► to loaf, to loiter, to potter about, to fuss, to trifle → CADDLE → Eng. dial.
1892 ► to pretend to be working; to hang about; to loiter, to waste time → DO A MIKE → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1893 ► to loiter, to hang around → NAVIGATE (ABOUT) → Amer. dial.
1896 ► to loiter, to lounge, to shirk work, to waste time → SOJER → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1897 ► to idle away time; to loiter, to loaf, to play → ALLACK → Eng. dial.
1897 ► to idle away time; to loiter, to loaf, to play → HALLOCK ABOUT → Eng. dial.
1898 ► to loiter → BIDE-ABOUT → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► to loaf, to loiter about → CAG-MAG → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
L19  ► to loiter; to hang around → BLOCK → sl.
L19  ► to lounge, to loiter, to waste time → MOON AWAY → sl.
1900 ► to loiter; to chat in a dawdling, foolish way → DAFF → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► to loiter, to hang about; to make love to → DANGLE → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► to loiter, to hesitate, to dawdle → DILVER → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► to gossip; to loiter about, to waste time → FARGE → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► to loiter, to waste time, to work lazily → FASSIL → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► to lark about; to play, to frolic; to loiter, to idle, to gossip → GANNICK → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 ► to be idle, to show laziness; to loiter → LAITCH → Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 ► to lounge, to loiter, to wander about aimlessly → LALL → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► to loiter; to wander idly about → SACKLE → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► to loiter, to idle → SANNICK → SANNOCK → SONNOCK → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► to saunter, to walk leisurely, to loiter → SAUTER → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► to walk lazily; to idle about; to loiter → SAWM → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► to wander aimlessly about; to loiter → SCAVEN → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► to loiter, to idle, to shirk work → SCOW → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► to mess about; to saunter, to loiter in → MAWKS → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► to gossip; to chatter; to loiter idly about → TANK → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► to loiter, to idle; to waste time → TIDDYTOIT → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1908 ► to delay, to loiter, to hesitate → DILLDALLY → Amer. dial.
1913 ► to dawdle, to loiter, to slacken one’s pace → DACKLE → Sc.
1913 ► to loiter, to idle, to lounge; to gad about → LOAFER ABOUT → Amer. dial.
1914 ► to fool around, to loiter, to waste time; to wander aimlessly; to be idle; to act irresponsibly; to trifle → ASS AROUND → Amer. sl.
1919 ► to wander about idly, to loaf, to loiter → PILF → Amer. dial.
1919 ► to wander about idly, to loaf, to loiter → PILFER → Amer. dial.
1920 ► to waste time; to loaf, loiter, or idle about → LOUSE AROUND → Amer. dial.
1931 ► to loaf about, esp. at a drugstore or other informal eating place; to loiter for idle conversation → JELLY (AROUND) → Amer. dial.
1931 ► to loiter about → SUCK AROUND → US sl.
1937 ► to saunter, to stroll; to loaf, to loiter, to idle → SANKLE → Amer. dial.
1945 ► to mess about; to loiter, to wander aimlessly → PISSANT AROUND → Aust. sl.
1949 ► to saunter, to stroll; to loaf, to loiter, to idle → SANKO → Amer. dial.
1953 ► to loiter, to idle, to lounge; to gad about → LOAFER AROUND → Amer. dial.
1963 ► to saunter, to stroll; to loaf, to loiter, to idle → SANKER → Amer. dial.
1966 ► to fool around; to loiter; to waste time; to be idle → ASSEN AROUND → Amer. dial.
1966 ► to waste time; to loaf, loiter, or idle about → LOUSE → Amer. dial.
1968 ► to loaf; to trifle; to wander idly about; to loiter to waste time → ASSHOLE AROUND → Amer. sl.
1974 ► to loaf, to loiter, to wander about idly → PILFER AROUND → Amer. dial.
1979 ► to saunter, to stroll; to loaf, to loiter, to idle → SANGO → Amer. dial.