Loafer

After eight years of the so-called K Street Project — the effort by Republican lawmakers and operatives to pressure companies, trade associations and lobbying firms to hire their fellow Republicans — the tasseled loafer is on the other foot. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Just as FrenchCanadian has borrowed Americanisms that are loan-words from other immigrant tongues, e. g., bum and loafer from the German, so some of the South American dialects have borrowed rapidas (= rapids), and kimono, the first brought into American from the French and the second from the Japanese. ❋ Henry Louis (1921)

Also wot you call loafer: 'e do not work wen' e wish not to. ❋ Various (1915)

Propped against the wall on a thin Italian loafer, he was black and hadn’t said anything except to introduce himself. ❋ Scottoline, Lisa (2001)

Generally known as a loafer, suspected of boosting for so-called 'wire-tappers' operating on upper West Side last spring. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)

Reformer, for a loafer was my detestation, and behold! ❋ Besant, Annie (1893)

In the larrikin he will not be able to discover a new species, but only an old one met elsewhere, and variously called loafer, rough, tough, bummer, or blatherskite, according to his geographical distribution. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

Near the hotel there was always a kind of loafer who accosted travellers, and who would not refuse. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I have said nothing of that unnatural specimen of humanity, sometimes called a "loafer," and by still more ignoble names, who, to use a vulgar term, "grubs" on his parents, drinks what he earns and befouls the home he robs, with his loathsome presence and scandalous living. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

i like mepali's, layman, and respose's analysis about bbt. if 3 panel judge give their annonymous verdict that bbt is loafer, that is agreeable. i haven't seen a single piece of written work by bbt so far. that proves how gobar ganesh he is. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For precisely similar reasons, a "loafer" or a careless or inefficient workman will lower the efficiency or slow up the production of the men about him, no matter how earnest or industrious their natural habits. ❋ Unknown (1910)

But it was quite impossible; the relative who had once promised assistance was appealed to, and wrote expressing his regret that Lucian had turned out a "loafer," wasting his time in scribbling, instead of trying to earn his living. ❋ Arthur Machen (1905)

Bromfield Cory was poohed and boshed quite out of consideration as a "loafer," a "dilletanty," but Lapham had all his sympathy. ❋ Unknown (1903)

He was a fat-faced, greasy-looking youth, with an attempted air of hang-dog respectability, and with 'loafer' writ large on his forehead. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)

He spent his own money and nearly all the stores among the half-bloods upon the beach, and being turned away, went up to the Presidio, where he lived the life of a desperate "loafer," until some rascally deed sent him off "between two days," with men on horseback, dogs, and Indians in full cry after him, among the hills. ❋ Unknown (1869)

The men appeared to be the laziest people upon the face of the earth; and indeed, as far as my observation goes, there are no people to whom the newly invented Yankee word of "loafer" is more applicable than to the Spanish Americans. ❋ Unknown (1869)

Every now and then a policeman or an agent of the detective corps passed by on his way to the Prefecture, and the elderly gentleman or the "loafer" would at times run after these officials to ask for some trifling information. ❋ ��mile Gaboriau (1852)