dawdle: Meaning and Definition of

daw•dle

Pronunciation: (dôd'l), [key]

— v., -dled, -dling.

—v.i.

to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter: Stop dawdling and help me with these packages!
to move slowly, languidly, or dilatorily; saunter.

—v.t.

to waste (time) by or as if by trifling (usually fol. by away): He dawdled away the whole morning.

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