DAWDLING

dalliance, dawdling, trifling

(noun) the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

dawdling

present participle of dawdle

Noun

dawdling (plural dawdlings)

The act of one who dawdles.

Anagrams

• waddling

Source: Wiktionary


DAWDLE

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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