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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