different between loiterer vs tarrier

English

Etymology

loiter +? -er

Noun

loiterer (plural loiterers)

1. One who loiters, one who lingers or hangs around.
   • Episode 16

     Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (noun):
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?tæ?i.?/
  • (US) enPR: t?'r?-?r, IPA^(key): /?tæ?i?/
  • Rhymes: -æri?(r)
• (adjective):
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?t???i.?/
  • (US) enPR: tä'r?-?r, IPA^(key): /?t???i?/

Etymology 1

The Roman Catholic slang variation is possibly derived from Saint Erasmus being labeled as a tarrier of time before torture and execution for his beliefs.

Noun

tarrier (plural tarriers)

1. A layabout or loiterer; someone who tarries.
2. (slang, derogatory, Britain) A Roman Catholic of Northern Ireland or Scotland

Adjective

tarrier

1. comparative form of tarry: more tarry

Etymology 2

Noun

tarrier (plural tarriers)

1. Obsolete form of terrier.