loafer
[loh-fer]
noun
a person who loafs; lazy person; idler.
Origin of loafer
1820–30, Americanism; perhaps short for *landloafer vagabond; compare German (obsolete) Landläufer, Dutch landloper; see landloper
Loafer
[loh-fer]
Trademark.
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Related Words for loafer
waster, wanderer, malingerer, slouch, lazybones, good-for-nothing, wastrel, idler, deadbeat, do-nothing, slacker, sluggard, shirker, beachcomber, lounger, goof-off, spongerExamples from the Web for loafer
Historical Examples of loafer
A good worker like him, not a loafer or a drunkard, he could have understood in that case.
L'AssommoirEmile Zola
Only one man may be scouted by any one, and that is the loafer.
Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2)William Delisle Hay
And, as for their calling you a loafer—well, that's your own fault, too.
The Rise of Roscoe PaineJoseph C. Lincoln
The loafer came in with a grin of good-nature on his perspiring and dirty face.
The Twins of Suffering CreekRidgwell Cullum
What did she think he was—a fool, a loafer, a uniformed nonentity?
The Game of Rat and DragonCordwainer Smith
loafer
noun
Word Origin for loafer
C19: perhaps from German Landläufer vagabond
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