loiter vs lurk

loiter

verb
  • To remain at a certain place instead of moving on. 

  • To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly. 

  • For an aircraft to remain in the air near a target. 

noun
  • A standing or strolling about without any aim or purpose. 

lurk

verb
  • To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself. 

  • To read an Internet forum without posting comments or making one's presence apparent. 

  • To saddle (a person) with an undesirable task or duty. 

  • To remain unobserved. 

  • To remain concealed in order to ambush. 

noun
  • The act of lurking. 

How often have the words loiter and lurk occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )