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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
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
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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