dawdle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dawdle	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for dawdle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dawdle v take one's time; proceed slowly Synonym(s): linger, dawdle Antonym(s): belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" Synonym(s): dally, dawdle hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. Synonym(s): lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dawdle \Daw"dle\, v. t. To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dawdle \Daw"dle\, n. A dawdler. --Colman & Carrick.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dawdle \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.