lingering
nounUS, UK /ˈlɪŋɡəɹɪŋ/
Etymology From linger + -ing.
1
Gerund gerund of linger: an act of loitering or waiting.
- But through this insistent rhythm and rhyme, there are only questions and parenthetical pauses, interruptions and lingerings.2000, David S. Reynolds, A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman, page 73:
2
That which lingers; a remnant.
- The lingerings of decent pride were visible in her appearance. Her dress, though humble in the extreme, was scrupulously clean.1819 September 13, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Widow and Her Son”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number III, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 210:
- Whatever little lingerings may have now and then revived in my mind associated with my poor old face had only revived as belonging to a part of my life that was gone—gone like my infancy or my childhood.1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC: