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4 definitions found 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. 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dawdle v 1: take one's time; proceed slowly [syn: {linger}] [ant: {rush}] 2: hang back or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc [syn: {lag}, {fall back}, {fall behind}]
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