dawdle

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (1)  · 
“
"Don't dawdle, then, damn you for a cold-blooded staff-coxcomb!"

View all »
Definitions (12)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (3)

  1. intransitive verb To take more time than necessary: dawdled through breakfast.
  2. intransitive verb To move aimlessly or lackadaisically: dawdling on the way to work.
  3. transitive verb To waste (time) by idling: dawdling the hours away.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (3)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (3)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (3)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • But you don't want to dawdle, because there are only 2,500 copies of this release available, and once it's sold out, it's gone. would be giving an in-store performance this Thursday night at the soon-to-be-demolished
  • If the lawmakers dawdle or balk on these largely common sense refinements, the public, press and governor should scream and point fingers. —  Marry in Massachusetts
  • The British had their own word "dawdle" which means wasting time or being lazy.
  • Founder of dawdle, Sachin Agarwal, worked in venture capital and investment banking. —  WindyBits - Main
  • As he continues to dawdle, one officer wearing a helmet rushes at him from behind and appears to strike him on his upper leg with a baton. —  Home | Mail Online
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 193 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Suggestions Wordniks Suggest

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

Used in the same contextWord Family

dawdle:   dawdled ·  dawdling
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (3)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Perhaps alteration of dialectal daddle, to diddle.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. A colloq. word, apparently a variant of daddle.
  2. from dawdle, v.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈdɔdl/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a year.

Recently looked up

aboutus · crab · runner · abruptly · serai

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich