[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dawdle \daw"dle\ dadd"d'l, v. i. imp.  p. p. dawdled; p.
   pr.  vb. n. dawdling. cf. daddle.
   to waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
   1913 webster

         come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with
         me.                                      --johnson.
   1913 webster

         we . . . dawdle up and down pall mall.   --thackeray.
   1913 webster
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