[f. LOUNGE v. + -ER1.] One who lounges, an idler, a do-nothing.
1508. Dunbar, Flyting w. Kennedie, 121. Lene larbar, loungeour, baith lowsy in lisk and lonȝe.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VIII. Prol. 122. Quhat bern be thou in bed … Lurkand like a longeour?
1711. Steele, Spect., No. 54, ¶ 6. I shall enquire into such about this Town as have arrived at the Dignity of being Lowngers by the Force of natural Parts.
1750. Student, I. 21. Idle people called Lowngers, whose whole business it is to fly from the painful task of thinking.
1803. Mar. Edgeworth, Manufacturers, ii. (1832), 106. Our hero was ridiculed most unmercifully by all the Bond-street loungers.
1862. Merivale, Rom. Emp. (1865), VI. xlviii. 66. The loungers of the baths and porticoes sallied forth from their cool retreats.
1878. N. Amer. Rev., CXXVI. 7. He went to Europe as a student, not as a lounger.
