To wait : v. input (or poirauter or poiroter) (word coming from leek).
Do, let hang around someone: wait someone long.
Waiting for nothing, waiting in the street, make wait.
He made me hang around for more than two hours.
I hung around for more than two hours : I have expected more than two hours.
– Quote from the American writer John Fante (1909-1983): “I have seen doctors and interns, I have seen nurses and assistants, I have wandered through halls and corridors, but no one 'didn't want to tell me anything' in the novel Ask the Dust (ask the dust) (1939).