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[syn: dalliance, dawdling, trifling]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dawdle \Daw"dle\ (d[add]"d'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dawdled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Dawdling.] [Cf. Daddle.]
To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
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Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with
me. --Johnson.
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We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. --Thackeray.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dawdling
n 1: the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of
working [syn: dalliance, dawdling, trifling]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "dawdling":
dalliance, dallying, delaying, dilatoriness, dilatory,
dillydallying, dolce far niente, dragging, goofing off, idling,
lag, lagging, lazing, lingering, loafing, loitering, lolling,
lollygagging, lounging, mopery, procrastination, procrastinative,
procrastinatory, shilly-shallying, tarriance, tarrying, trifling,
waiting