Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who lingers.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who lingers.

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  • noun Agent noun of linger; one who lingers.

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  • noun someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place

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Examples

  • Puamana was superstitious, solitary, vain about her looks, never late, indeed fanatical in matters of punctuality, a brisk walker, not a loiterer or a lingerer.

    Beard 2010

  • May I point out that you could be pulled over for flashing your highbeams at the left lane lingerer.

    Move over Jersey drivers, Manahan takes on the left-lane lingerers 2009

  • On occasion, they may ask a truly recalcitrant lingerer to sign a statement acknowledging the risks of staying behind.

    Archive 2005-08-01 Beach Blogger 2005

  • On occasion, they may ask a truly recalcitrant lingerer to sign a statement acknowledging the risks of staying behind.

    Beach Evacuation (updated/corrected) Beach Blogger 2005

  • The intransitive very inactive verb is from the 15th-century Scottish dialect noun lungis, meaning “laggard, lingerer,” rooted in the Latin Longinus, the apocryphal name of the soldier who lanced Jesus in the side, and was influenced by longus, “long,” associated with “slow.”

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • The intransitive very inactive verb is from the 15th-century Scottish dialect noun lungis, meaning “laggard, lingerer,” rooted in the Latin Longinus, the apocryphal name of the soldier who lanced Jesus in the side, and was influenced by longus, “long,” associated with “slow.”

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • Then just as the gangway was about to be withdrawn, it suddenly came over her that a whole ocean was soon to roll between her and those who loved her best, and she clung to Laurie, the last lingerer, saying with a sob ...

    Little Women 1921

  • For the listener; for the lingerer with a love glides

    The Wreck of the Deutschland 1918

  • TARRY thou yet, late lingerer in the twilight’s glory:

    A Call of the Sidhe A. E. 1913

  • Tarry thou yet, late lingerer in the twilight's glory

    Imaginations and Reveries George William Russell 1901

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