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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 followed by away): He dawdled away the whole morning.
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Origin:
1650–60; variant of daddle to toddle
1650–60; variant of daddle to toddle
Related forms
daw·dler, noun
daw·dling·ly, adverb
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Example Sentences
- One cannot dawdle if one wishes to hook one of these gleaming acrobatic fish.
- But players must not dawdle in solving that equation.
- People act in a timely way when given concrete tasks but dawdle when they view them in abstract terms.
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Word Origin & History
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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