Daw"dle (?), 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.
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Daw"dle, v. t.
To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.
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Daw"dle, n.
A dawdler.
Colman & Carrick.
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