Daw"dle (dô"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.
Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea
with me.
Johnson.
We . . . dawdle up and down Pall
Mall.
Thackeray.Daw"dle, v. t. To waste by
trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.
Daw"dle, n. A dawdler.
Colman & Carrick.