LekhoriLekhoriChiefly followed by away: to spend (time) without haste or purpose.
to dawdle away the whole morning
To spend time idly and unfruitfully; to waste time.
Tell him, if he'll call on me, and davvdle over a diſh of tea in an afternoon, I ſhall take it kind.
An act of spending time idly and unfruitfully; a dawdling.
An act of moving or walking lackadaisically, a dawdling; a leisurely or slow walk or other journey.
For many the journey home from school was not a walk but a ‘dawdle’: it was an everyday experience that added meaning to their lives.
The verb is possibly: * a variant of daddle (“(Britain, dialectal) to walk or work slowly, dawdle, saunter, trifle”) or doddle (“(Britain, dialectal) to walk feebly or slowly, dawdle, idle, saunter, s...
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To move or walk lackadaisically.
If you dawdle on your daily walk, you won’t get as much exercise.