dawdling

Variant of dawdle

dawdle definition

daw·dle (dôd′'l)

intransitive verb, transitive verb dawdled -·dled, dawdling -·dling

to waste (time) in trifling or by being slow; idle: often with away

Etymology: < ? or akin to ME dadel(ing), chattering (of birds), dadelar, glib talker, prob. of echoic orig.

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