DAWDLE

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

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.

2.
v.

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

3.
n.

A dawdler. Colman & Carrick.

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