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Webster 1913 Edition


Dawdle

Daw′dle

(da̤′d’l)
,
Verb.
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

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

Daw′dle

,
Noun.
A dawdler.
Colman & Carrick.

Webster 1828 Edition


Dawdle

DAW'DLE

,
Verb.
I.
To waste time; to trifle.

DAW'DLE

R,
Noun.
A trifler.
DAWK, v.t. To cut or mark with an incision.
DAWN, v.i.

Definition 2024


dawdle

dawdle

English

Verb

dawdle (third-person singular simple present dawdles, present participle dawdling, simple past and past participle dawdled)

  1. (intransitive) To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.
    • 1909, E.M. Forster, I”, in The Machine Stops:
      I really believe you enjoy dawdling.
    • 2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:
      However all Hennessey's good work went to waste on 52 minutes when he dawdled on the ball.
    • Johnson
      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.
    • Thackeray
      We [] dawdle up and down Pall Mall.
    If you dawdle on your daily walk, you won't get as much exercise.

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Noun

dawdle (plural dawdles)

  1. A dawdler.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Colman & Carrick to this entry?)

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