Meaning of DAWDLE
| Pronunciation: | | 'dodl
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- [v] hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
- [v] waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!"
- [v] take one's time; proceed slowly
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| | Synonyms: | | dally, fall back, fall behind, lag, linger |
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| | Antonyms: | | belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed | | |
| | See Also: | | act, behave, do, drag, drop behind, dwell on, follow, get behind, hang back, linger over, move, trail | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with
me. --Johnson.
We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. --Thackeray.
\Daw"dle\, v. t.
To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.
\Daw"dle\, n.
A dawdler. --Colman & Carrick.
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| | Related Terms: | | abide, await, bide, bide the issue, clock watcher, continue, dallier, dally, dawdler, delay, diddle, diddler, dillydallier, dillydally, dolittle, do-nothing, 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, slowbelly, slow-foot, 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 |
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