The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
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
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.
dawdle (plural dawdles)
A dawdler.
A slow walk, journey.
An easily accomplished task; a doddle.
• 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
29 May 2025
(adjective) characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; “a critical reading”; “a critical dissertation”; “a critical analysis of Melville’s writings”
The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.