Category:Dawdle

Daw"dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dawdled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dawdling.] Etym: [Cf. Daddle.]

Defn: 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.

dawdle Daw"dle, v. t.

Defn: To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.

dawdle Daw"dle, n.

Defn: A dawdler. Colman & Carrick.