Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dawdle"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dawdle \Daw"dle\ (d[add]"d'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dawdled}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Dawdling}.] [Cf. {Daddle}.]
To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with
me. --Johnson.
We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. --Thackeray.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dawdle \Daw"dle\, v. t.
To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dawdle \Daw"dle\, n.
A dawdler. --Colman & Carrick.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dawdle
v 1: take one's time; proceed slowly [syn: {linger}] [ant: {rush}]
2: waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" [syn: {dally}]
3: hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress,
development, etc. [syn: {lag}, {fall back}, {fall behind}]
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