Loiter vs Loster - What's the difference?
loiter | loster |
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.}}
(nonstandard) (lost)
* {{quote-book
, title=
, last=Bellow
, first=Saul
, authorlink=Saul Bellow
, year=1975
, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=r0bFQu7Y6SIC&lpg=PA24&dq=loster%20bellow&pg=PA24v=onepage&q=loster%20bellow&f=false
, publisher=Viking
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year=2006
, month=April
, magazine=American Motorcyclist
, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=q_UDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA41&dq=loster&pg=PA41v=onepage&q=loster&f=false
, page=41
}}
* {{quote-book
, title=Signspotting III: Lost and Loster in Translation
, last=Lansky
, first=Doug
, year=2009
, publisher=Penguin
, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=oWQ_ucH5mOQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=loster&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EYZ1UcuvFNKy0QH5g4G4Cg&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAQ
, page=title
}}
As a verb loiter
is to stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly; to linger; to hang around.As an adjective loster is
comparative of lost.loiter
English
Verb
(en verb)- For some reason, they discourage loitering outside the store, but encourage it inside.
citation
Anagrams
*loster
English
Adjective
- Perhaps, being lost, one should get loster ; being very late for an appointment, it might be best to walk slower, as one of my beloved Russian writers advised.
- You can get loster , faster!