DAWDLE

lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind

(verb) hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.

dally, dawdle

(verb) waste time; “Get busy--don’t dally!”

linger, dawdle

(verb) take one’s time; proceed slowly

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

dawdle (third-person singular simple present dawdles, present participle dawdling, simple past and past participle dawdled)

(intransitive) To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.

(transitive) To spend (time) without haste or purpose.

(intransitive) To move or walk lackadaisically.

Noun

dawdle (plural dawdles)

A dawdler.

A slow walk, journey.

An easily accomplished task; a doddle.

Anagrams

• Dewald, Waddle, dwaled, waddle, walded

Source: Wiktionary

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Daw"dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dawdled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dawdling.] Etym: [Cf. Daddle.]

Definition: 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.

Daw"dle, v. t.

Definition: To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.

Daw"dle, n.

Definition: A dawdler. Colman & Carrick.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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