Sekirov Dictionary

dawdle

/ˈdɔːdl̩/

verb 3
noun 3
forms 5

verb3

•
To move or walk lackadaisically.
- If you dawdle on your daily walk, you won’t get as much exercise.
•
Chiefly followed by away: to spend (time) without haste or purpose.
- [M]anaging to live on terms with both / Opposing potentates, the Power and you, / Crowned with success, but dawdle out my days / In exile here at Clairvaux, with mock love, […] — 1873
•
To spend time idly and unfruitfully; to waste time.
- Tell him, if he'll call on me, and davvdle over a dish of tea in an afternoon, I shall take it kind. — 1791

noun3

An act of spending time idly and unfruitfully; a dawdling.
•
An act of moving or walking lackadaisically, a dawdling; a leisurely or slow walk or other journey.
- For many the journey home from school was not a walk but a ‘dawdle’: it was an everyday experience that added meaning to their lives. — 2017
•
Synonym of dawdler (“a person who dawdles or idles”).
- Lord, I have such a deal to do, I shall scarce have time to slip on my Italian lutesting.—VVhere is this davvdle of a housekeeper? — 1766

forms

dawdled · dawdling · dawdles · dawdleth · dawdlest

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