D defs.my
Entry 3 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Dawdle

/(da̤"d'l)/ · Daw·dle · IPA /ˈdɔdl̩/
01 v. i. To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
imp. & p. p. Dawdled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dawdling
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    To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
    “Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me.” Johnson.
    “We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall.” Thackeray.
02 v. t. To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.
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    To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.
03 n. A dawdler.
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    A dawdler.