dawdle

Verb
Synonyms: lingerdallylagfall backfall behind

WordNet 3.0

Verb (3)

  1. take one's time; proceed slowlySynonyms: linger
  2. waste time“Get busy--don't dally!”Synonyms: dally
  3. hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.Synonyms: lagfall backfall behind
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]

We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]

Dawdle \Daw"dle\, v. t. To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning. [1913 Webster]
Dawdle \Daw"dle\, n. A dawdler. --Colman & Carrick. [1913 Webster]
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