dawdling

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

dawdling
    n 1: the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of
         working [syn: {dalliance}, {dawdling}, {trifling}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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         Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with
         me.                                      --Johnson.
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         We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall.   --Thackeray.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

28 Moby Thesaurus words for "dawdling":
      dalliance, dallying, delaying, dilatoriness, dilatory,
      dillydallying, dolce far niente, dragging, goofing off, idling,
      lag, lagging, lazing, lingering, loafing, loitering, lolling,
      lollygagging, lounging, mopery, procrastination, procrastinative,
      procrastinatory, shilly-shallying, tarriance, tarrying, trifling,
      waiting

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