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verb-intransitive. To take more time than necessary: dawdled through breakfast.

verb-intransitive. To move aimlessly or lackadaisically: dawdling on the way to work.

v. To waste (time) by idling: dawdling the hours away.

v. To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.

v. To spend (time) without haste or purpose.

v. To move or walk lackadaisically.

n. A dawdler.

verb-intransitive. To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.

v. To waste by trifling.

n. A dawdler.

To idle; waste time; trifle; loiter.

To waste by trifling: with away: as, to dawdle away a whole forenoon.

n. A trifler; a dawdler.

v. hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.

v. waste time

v. take one's time; proceed slowly

"Recently, I made a little journal to try out what I thought would be the "dawdle" of bookbinding in danish: "bogbinderi" and have started filling it in."

dawdled    dawdles    dawdling   

do    act    behave    move   

delay    wander    diddle    loaf    doodle    dander    piddle    dandle   

dawdled    dawdling   

trifle    saunter    dawdler   

caudal    caudle   

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