Lollygag vs Loiter - What's the difference?
lollygag | loiter |
(US) To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.
(US) Silliness, nonsense.
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.}}
As verbs the difference between lollygag and loiter
is that lollygag is (us) to dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort while loiter is to stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly; to linger; to hang around.As a noun lollygag
is (us) silliness, nonsense.lollygag
English
Alternative forms
* lallygagVerb
(lollygagg)Synonyms
* dawdle, shirk, slack, procrastinationNoun
(-)- He likes to do his car up with blacked-out windows, and all that lollygag .
loiter
English
Verb
(en verb)- For some reason, they discourage loitering outside the store, but encourage it inside.
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