dawdle

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdɔːdəl/

Verb

dawdle (dawdles, present participle dawdling; past and past participle dawdled)

1. (intransitive) To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.

   • Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me.

2. (transitive) To spend (time) without haste or purpose.

   to dawdle away the whole morning

3. (intransitive) To move or walk lackadaisically.

   • We […] dawdle up and down Pall Mall.

   If you dawdle on your daily walk, you won't get as much exercise.

Translations

• German: trödeln, (colloquially) Zeit totschlagen
• Italian: bighellonare
• Russian: безде́льничать

Translations

• Russian: ме́шкать

Translations

• German: trödeln
• Russian: плести́сь

Noun

dawdle (plural dawdles)

1. A dawdler.
   • 1766, George Colman the Elder and David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage, Act I, page 13 ↗

     Where is this dawdle of a housekeeper?

2. A slow walk, journey.
3. An easily accomplished task; a doddle.

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