different between loiter vs forslow

English

Etymology

From Middle English loitren, from Middle Dutch loteren (“to shake, wag, wobble”), ultimately connected with a frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *l?tan? (“to bend, stoop, cower, shrink from, decline”), see lout. Cognate with Dutch leuteren (“to dawdle”), Alemannic German lottern (“to wobble”), German Lotterbube (“rascal”). More at lout, little.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??t?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l??t?/, [?l?j??]
• Rhymes: -??t?(r)

Verb

loiter (third-person singular simple present loiters, present participle loitering, simple past and past participle loitered)

1. To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly.

   Synonyms: (Malaysia, Singapore) lepak, linger, hang around

2. To remain at a certain place instead of moving on.
3. (military, aviation) For an aircraft to remain in the air near a target.

Derived terms

• loiter time

Translations

Noun

loiter (plural loiters)

1. A standing or strolling about without any aim or purpose.
   • 1865, Edward Spooner, Parson and People (page 125)

     Oh, Sir, we just got up in the morning and had a loiter and a pipe on the green; then we got our breakfasts; […]

Anagrams

• Loiret, Lortie, toiler, triole

English

Alternative forms

• foreslow, fore-slow

Etymology

From Middle English forslowen, forslewen (“to neglect”), from Old English forsl?wian, forsl?wan (“to be slow, unwilling, delay, put off”), equivalent to for- +? slow.

Verb

forslow (third-person singular simple present forslows, present participle forslowing, simple past and past participle forslowed)

1. (transitive, 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.

2. (transitive, 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.

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To be slow or dilatory; loiter.
   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3:

     Foreslow no longer, make we hence amaine.

Synonyms

• (To be dilatory about): See also Thesaurus:procrastinate
• (To delay): See also Thesaurus:hinder
• (To be slow or dilatory): See also Thesaurus:loiter

Derived terms

• forslowth