Loiter vs Forslow - What's the difference?
loiter | forslow |
To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly; to linger; to hang around.
* {{quote-news, author=Daniel Taylor, title=David Silva seizes point for Manchester City as Chelsea are checked, work=(The Guardian) (London), date=31 January 2015
, passage=Agüero, as usual, was loitering with intent and swung his left foot at the ball. The shot was going wide but Silva was there to apply the decisive touch inside the six-yard area.}}
(obsolete) To be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.
*1599 , (Ben Jonson), Every Man out of His Humour , V.8:
*:If you can think upon any present means for his delivery, do not foreslow it.
(obsolete) To delay; hinder; impede; obstruct.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:
*:But by no meanes my way I would forslow / For ought that ever she could doe or say […].
*1682 , (John Dryden), Epistles , XIII:
*:The wond'ring Nereids, though they rais'd no storm, / Foreslow'd her passage, to behold her form.
(obsolete) To be slow or dilatory; loiter.
*c. 1591 , (William Shakespeare), Henry VI, Part 3 :
*:Foreslow no longer, make we hence amaine.
As verbs the difference between loiter and forslow
is that loiter is to stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly; to linger; to hang around while forslow is to be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.loiter
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Verb
(en verb)- For some reason, they discourage loitering outside the store, but encourage it inside.
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