Dawdled

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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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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