saunterer
(ˈsɔːntərə(r))
[f. saunter v. + -er1.]
One who saunters; a lounger; † a dawdler, trifler.
| 1688 Pett Happy Future St. Eng. 251 The fantastick Vtopias, Oceanas, and new Atlantis'es that our late Visionaries and idle Santerers to a pretended new Jerusalem troubled England with. 1735 Berkeley Querist §413 (1750) 46 And quit the Life of an insignificant Saunterer about Town, for that of an useful Country-Gentleman. 1798 Edgeworth Pract. Educ. (1822) I. 149 Alcibiades might have been a saunterer at his book. 1832 Scott St. Ronan's Introd. ¶3 Thither, too, comes the saunterer, anxious to get rid of that wearisome attendant himself. |