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daw·dle

Audio Help [dawd-l] Pronunciation Key verb, -dled, -dling.

–verb (used without object)

1.	to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter: Stop dawdling and help me with these packages!

2.	to move slowly, languidly, or dilatorily; saunter.

–verb (used with object)

3.	to waste (time) by or as if by trifling (usually fol. by away): He dawdled away the whole morning.

[Origin: 1650–60; var. of daddle to toddle

]

—Related forms

dawdler, noun

daw·dling·ly, adverb

—Synonyms 1, 2. See loiter. 3. fritter, putter, idle, trifle.

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daw·dle Audio Help   (dôd'l) Pronunciation Key
v.   daw·dled, daw·dling, daw·dles

v.   intr.

To take more time than necessary: dawdled through breakfast.
To move aimlessly or lackadaisically: dawdling on the way to work.

v. tr.
To waste (time) by idling: dawdling the hours away.

[Perhaps alteration of dialectal daddle, to diddle.]

daw'dler n., daw'dling·ly adv.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
dawdle

c.1656, perhaps a variant of daddle "to walk unsteadily." Perhaps influenced by daw, since the bird was regarded as sluggish and silly. Not in general use until c.1775.

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dawdle
verb
1.	take one's time; proceed slowly [syn: linger] [ant: belt along]
2.	waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" [syn: dally]
3.	hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. [syn: lag]

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dawdle [ˈdoːdl] verb

to waste time especially by moving slowly
Example: Hurry up, and don't dawdle!

Arabic:	يَتَلَكَّأ، يَتَسَكَّع، يَتَباطَأ
Chinese (Simplified):	闲荡
Chinese (Traditional):	閑蕩
Czech:	lelkovat, loudat se
Danish:	smøle; daske
Dutch:	treuzelen
Estonian:	venitama
Finnish:	vetelehtiä
French:	flâner
German:	trödeln
Greek:	χασομερώ
Hungarian:	lóg, cselleng
Icelandic:	slóra, hangsa
Indonesian:	mengulur waktu
Italian:	gingillarsi

Japanese:	ぐずぐずする
Korean:	꾸물거리다, 꾸물거리며 시간을 허비하다
Latvian:	slaistīties
Lithuanian:	gaišuoti
Norwegian:	gå og drive, somle
Polish:	guzdrać się
Portuguese (Brazil):	folgar
Portuguese (Portugal):	fazer cera
Romanian:	a o lungi, a-şi pierde vremea
Russian:	канителить(ся)
Slovak:	vliecť sa
Slovenian:	zapravljati čas
Spanish:	demorar, moverse muy despacio
Swedish:	söla, såsa
Turkish:	oyalanmak

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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.

Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. --Johnson.

We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. --Thackeray.

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Dawdle

Daw"dle\, v. t. To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.

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Dawdle

Daw"dle\, n. A dawdler. --Colman & Carrick.

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