Dawdle

v. i.	1.	To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter. [imp. & p. p. Dawdled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dawdling .] Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. - Johnson. We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. - Thackeray.
v. t.	1.	To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.
n.	1.	A dawdler.

Verb	1.	dawdle - take one's time; proceed slowly Synonyms: linger
	2.	dawdle - waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" Synonyms: dally
	3.	dawdle - hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. Synonyms: lag, fall back, fall behind

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