What's the difference between loafer and straggler?

Loafer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who loafs; a lazy lounger.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Loafers were worn sockless, with a few inches of tanned ankle.
  • (2) The local British brands are very attractive because of the high quality.” While they haven’t bought any Burberry goods yet, she reckons the Loake loafers her partner bought earlier are 30% cheaper than at home.
  • (3) In the landscape in which I work, in south India, a large tuskless male known as CMK1 or “Naadodi Ganesan”, “the village loafer Ganesan”, spends all his time around people and displays behaviour that is rather different from his fellow elephants.
  • (4) In the Pentagon worldview, however, there is simply no drug use, nor any factory-style drudgery, and no one in the US Air Force is, was or ever shall be light enough in the loafers to invoke The Wizard Of Oz poetically.
  • (5) She's trimly turned out in a tweed jacket and silver loafers.
  • (6) Series nine of The Apprentice ( Tue & Wed, 9pm, BBC1 ) and the winds of change are howling around Lord Sugar's tasselled loafers.
  • (7) Amiable, wise and pink-cheeked, with the same taste for the finer things we have witnessed in certain popes – let us remember Benedict’s red leather loafers – it’s all but impossible, once you’ve read his new novel, not to imagine how fabulous he would look in a white zucchetto , with a cape to match, and a socking great ring on his finger for journalists to kiss as they try desperately not to reveal the sin of envy in his presence (before he was a million-selling novelist, Harris was a hack just like them – and me).
  • (8) Spray-painted monk-strap shoes, desert boots and tasselled loafers paraded on a catwalk raised to audience eye-level in order to give a an ant's-eye view of the main event.
  • (9) Hirst's Prada loafers are on the floor in front of us, but his signature tinted glasses are nowhere to be seen.
  • (10) He will trade his famous red shoes for some brown loafers given to him in Mexico last year, but will continue to wear a cassock in the traditional papal colour of white.
  • (11) If you’re going out raving you might go for the Gucci loafers but for the standard day to day, it’s all about Reebok Classics or Nikes.
  • (12) 'Is it proper to wear tasselled loafers with a business suit or not?'"
  • (13) This means her look is all trainers, flats and comfy loafers, paired with loose jeans and baggy jumpers.
  • (14) He was not averse to this, preferring to cloak his iron self-discipline and thirst for knowledge under a crisp linen shirt, a light tan, and pair of Gucci loafers.
  • (15) You are the Ref No345: Zlatan Ibrahimovic Read more In what is perhaps a sign that Roman Ambramovich has been through every other manager in the world that might be willing to work with him, he is reportedly flicking through his old contact book to give some former friends a shout, with Carlo Ancelotti and Guus Hiddink the men who could fill José’s loafers.
  • (16) They're forcing us to travel with tiny tubes of toothpaste and moving us to wear loafers when usually we'd prefer lace-ups.
  • (17) What unites us is an unconditional love for France,” Marion Maréchal-Le Pen told an eclectic audience ranging from retired business leaders in smart loafers to heavy-metal fans, poor farmers, trendy teenage girls and people carrying lapdogs with bows in their hair.
  • (18) The Russian MP has written to the Customs Union, a grouping that includes Russia , Belarus and Kazakhstan, suggesting it introduces regulations limiting heels to 5cm in height, as well as ruling out trainers and men's loafers.
  • (19) At this point the penny loafer drops: they're called the 1% because they're lonely.
  • (20) Gucci being the key show from autumn, and the loafer with furry insides the key shoe, it was always going to be the show-off shoe for editors attending these spring shows.

Straggler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction.
  • (n.) A roving vagabond.
  • (n.) Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
  • (n.) Something that stands alone or by itself.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Only a few stragglers outside O'Byron's pub refused to believe this was happening on Good Friday.
  • (2) In the morning, they would go to bed and order the yacht to leave port, knowing the crew would have to remove any stragglers before they set sail.
  • (3) Some findings of the live animal, such as 'straggler', were associated with a wide range of post-mortem abnormalities.
  • (4) Then I had to wait for God knows how long until Will Adamsdale wheeled it out again for the stragglers, and when he did, I rolled up and watched slack-jawed.
  • (5) The euro was always meant to be a political project above all – lifting Europe’s stragglers up to the living standards of the rest and, in doing so,k cementing the political ties between Athens and Antwerp, Madrid and Munich.
  • (6) Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker, and her lieutenants lobbied till the last minute to round up final stragglers, but heroic measures were needed.
  • (7) Maybe, next week, we'll see if these stragglers fold into the party ranks.
  • (8) With stragglers Obama and India's Manmohan Singh confirming their attendance over the weekend, some 100 world leaders are now expected to be in Copenhagen, bolstering chances of emerging with an agreement by 18 December.
  • (9) #afc September 2, 2013 6.14pm BST Here come the stragglers Crystal Palace have confirmed the signing of Adrian Mariappa, the Jamaica centre-back, from Reading for an undisclosed fee on a three-year contract.
  • (10) The Arsenal defenders among the stragglers departing this arena could only wince at another glimpse of Didier Drogba .
  • (11) Results from a second laboratory contained both stragglers and outliers.
  • (12) Leave us last stragglers of the culture apocalypse in peace to paw in fingerless gloves through 12-inch relics of the time when music was still a living, radical thing.
  • (13) He's able to gather an army from the weak-minded, the stragglers, finding the darkness that's in us all and using it.
  • (14) The bot wheels around pastures on remote control, drawing stragglers back to the herd, though without actually having to nip at their heels.
  • (15) They’ve already given him an easy-to-use script that should be too predictable: “Hillary Clinton is much too dangerous, Trump has vowed to change his ways …” Yes, there are a few stragglers who will never be converted.
  • (16) Watson welcomed the winning runner at the tape, encouraged the stragglers and then, on Sunday night, led a Q&A session.
  • (17) Then the family gathered themselves and made their way down to the entrance on the Strand, pausing to let the stragglers out before them, knowing the grand exit that was expected, and prepared to do their bit.
  • (18) Now sex traffickers are following the columns of refugees, picking off young unaccompanied stragglers .
  • (19) While Bush and other stragglers such as Rand Paul and Mike Huckabee failed to make much impression on the debate, the third Republican TV showdown revealed how wide open its primary race remains compared with a Democratic race increasingly dominated by Clinton.
  • (20) But "stragglers" may not be allowed to finish if they're still running at night.

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