Meaning of Dawdle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An act of spending time idly and unfruitfully; a dawdling.
2. Alternative spelling of doddle (“a job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple”).
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3. An act of moving or walking lackadaisically, a dawdling; a leisurely or slow walk or other journey.
4. Synonym of dawdler (“a person who dawdles or idles”).

Equivalents

Examples

“For many the journey home from school was not a walk but a ‘dawdle’: it was an everyday experience that added meaning to their lives.”

“Lord, I have ſuch a deal to do, I ſhall ſcarce have time to ſlip on my Italian luteſting.—VVhere is this davvdle of a houſekeeper?”

“He was a QC from Edinburgh, wearing the black jacket and pinstripe trousers of his trade, as if straight from court, and probably persuaded to come in the belief that if you could interest the Budhill and Springboig party in the repressive Gaullist policies in Algeria then becoming Solicitor-General was a dawdle.”

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