dawdle

dawdle
    v 1: 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}]
    2: waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" [syn: {dally}, {dawdle}]
    3: hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress,
       development, etc. [syn: {lag}, {dawdle}, {fall back}, {fall
       behind}]
    

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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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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109 Moby Thesaurus words for "dawdle":
      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