Dawdle /(da̤"d'l)/

imp. & p. p. Dawdled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dawdling

1. To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.

   Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me.

   We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall.

1. To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.

1. A dawdler.