Dawdling

3 definitions found

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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dawdling
       n : the deliberate act of wasting time instead of working [syn:
           {dalliance}, {trifling}, {wasting time}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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