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Dawdle
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
A dawdler. Colman & Carrick.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.