“saunterer”的英英意思

单词 saunterer
释义 saunterer|ˈsɔːntərə(r)|
[f. saunter v. + -er1.]
One who saunters; a lounger; a dawdler, trifler.
1688Pett 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.1735Berkeley Querist §413 (1750) 46 And quit the Life of an insignificant Saunterer about Town, for that of an useful Country-Gentleman.1798Edgeworth Pract. Educ. (1822) I. 149 Alcibiades might have been a saunterer at his book.1832Scott St. Ronan's Introd. ⁋3 Thither, too, comes the saunterer, anxious to get rid of that wearisome attendant himself.

 

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