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loiter-sacks

loiter-sacks is the plural of loiter-sack.

Meaning of loiter-sack

Noun

loiter-sack (plural loiter-sacks)

  1. (obsolete) A lazy person.
    • I maruell I heare no nevves of Dromio, either hee ſlackes the matter, or betrayes his maiſter, I dare not motion anie thing to Stellio, till I knovve vvhat my boy hath don; Ile hunt him out, if the loiterſacke be gone ſpringing into a tauerne, Ile fetch him reeling out.c. 1590 (date written), [John Lyly], Mother Bombie. […], London: […] Thomas Scarlet for Cuthbert Burby, published 1594, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, signature C3, verso

Questions about loiter-sacks

What is loiter-sacks the plural of?
Loiter-sacks is the plural of loiter-sack.

Words near loiter-sacks in the dictionary

  1. loiter munition
  2. loiter munitions
  3. loiter time
  4. loiter times
  5. loiter-sack
  6. loiter-sacks
  7. loiterature
  8. loitered
  9. loiterer
  10. loiterers
  11. loiterest

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