loiter-sack
Noun
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Noun
loiter-sack (plural loiter-sacks)
- (obsolete) A lazy person.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:idler
- c. 1590, [John Lyly], Mother Bombie. […], London: Imprinted by Thomas Scarlet for Cuthbert Burby, published 1594, OCLC 222361197 ↗; 2nd edition, London: Printed by Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, 1598, OCLC 84756132 ↗, Act II, scene ii:
- I maruel I heare no nevves of Dromio, either hee ſlackes the matter, or betraies his Maiſter, I dare not motion anie thing to Stellio, till I know vvhat my boy hath don, Ile hunt him out, if the loiterſacke be gone ſpringing into a Tauerne, Ile fetch him reeling out.
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