Meaning

3 senses
  1. An act of spending time idly and unfruitfully; a dawdling.

  2. An act of moving or walking lackadaisically, a dawdling; a leisurely or slow walk or other journey.

  3. Synonym of dawdler (“a person who dawdles or idles”).

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Don't dawdle on the way home.

    Не лови ґав по дорозі додому. — deniko

    deTrödle auf dem Heimweg nicht. — Dani6187

  2. Come along now, you mustn't dawdle.

  3. We haven't got time to dawdle.

    deWir haben keine Zeit zum Trödeln! — Yorwba

  4. We don't have time to dawdle.

    deWir haben keine Zeit zum Trödeln! — Yorwba

  5. Don't dawdle about, make haste!

Origin

The verb is possibly:

The verb is possibly:

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Forms

plural: dawdles
Singulardawdle
Pluraldawdles

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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