[syn: lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind]
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dawdle \Daw"dle\, v. t.
To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dawdle \Daw"dle\, n.
A dawdler. --Colman & Carrick.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dawdle
v 1: take one's time; proceed slowly [syn: linger, dawdle]
[ant: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along,
hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush,
rush along, speed, step on it]
2: waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" [syn: dally, dawdle]
3: hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress,
development, etc. [syn: lag, dawdle, fall back, fall
behind]