'Dawdle' definitions:
Definition of 'dawdle'
(from WordNet)
verb
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]
verb
Waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" [syn: dally, dawdle]
verb
Hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. [syn: lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind]
Definition of 'Dawdle'
From: 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]
Definition of 'Dawdle'
From: GCIDE
- Dawdle \Daw"dle\, v. t. To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dawdle'
From: GCIDE
- Dawdle \Daw"dle\, n. A dawdler. --Colman & Carrick. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dawdle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abide,
- await,
- bide,
- bide the issue,
- clock watcher,
- continue,
- dallier,
- dally,
- dawdler,
- delay,
- diddle,
- diddler,
- dillydallier,
- dillydally,
- do-nothing,
- dolittle,
- doodle,
- doodler,
- drag,
- drag out,
- draw out,
- drone,
- dwell on,
- extend,
- faineant,
- fall behind,
- falter,
- flag,
- foot-dragger,
- gentleman of leisure,
- get behind,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof off,
- goof-off,
- halt,
- hang about,
- hang around,
- hang back,
- hold everything,
- hold on,
- hold your horses,
- idle,
- idler,
- lag,
- laggard,
- laze,
- lengthen,
- lengthen out,
- lie-abed,
- linger,
- linger behind,
- linger on,
- lingerer,
- loafer,
- loiter,
- loiterer,
- loller,
- lollygag,
- lotus-eater,
- lounge,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- mark time,
- mope,
- moper,
- piddle,
- plodder,
- poke,
- potterer,
- procrastinate,
- procrastinator,
- prolong,
- protract,
- putterer,
- shilly-shally,
- sit tight,
- sit up,
- sleepyhead,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- slow goer,
- slow-foot,
- slowbelly,
- slowpoke,
- slug,
- sluggard,
- snail,
- spin out,
- stay,
- stay up,
- stick around,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- straggle,
- stretch out,
- take time,
- tarry,
- temporize,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- tortoise,
- trail,
- trail behind,
- trifler,
- wait,
- wait a minute,
- wait and see,
- waiter on Providence,
- waste time