Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dawdling"

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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

dawdling
adj : wasting time [syn: {dilatory}, {laggard}, {poky}, {pokey}]
n : the deliberate act of wasting time instead of working [syn:
{dalliance}, {trifling}, {wasting time}]


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