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dawdleverb to move or act slowlyif you continue to dawdle, we'll be late for sure crawl, creep, dally, delay, diddle, dillydally, drag, lag, linger, loiter, lollygag(also lallygag), mope, poke, shilly-shally, tarry fiddle (around), fool around, mess around, monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), triflehang (around or out), idle, loaf, loll, loungeamble, ease, inch, lumber, plod, saunter, shuffle, stagger, strolldecelerate, slow (down or up)filibuster, procrastinate, stall, temporize drag one's feet(also drag one's heels), drop behind, fall behind, hang fire, mark time, take one's time barrel, bolt, career, course, dash, fly, hasten, hotfoot (it), hurry, race, rip, rocket, run, rush, scoot, scud, scurry, speed, tear, whirl, whisk, whiz(or whizz), zip bowl, breeze, dart, hump, hurtle, hustle, scramble, stampedegallop, jog, run, sprint, trotaccelerate, quicken, speed (up)catch up, fast-forward, outpace, outrun, outstrip, overtake to spend time doing nothingaccused the city council of dawdling even as the crime rate was spiraling out of control bum, chill, dally, dillydally, drone, footle, goof (off), hack (around), hang (around or out), hang about(British), idle, kick around, kick back, laze, lazy, loaf, loll, lounge, veg out fiddle (around), fool, mess, monkey, muck, piddle, play, potter (around), putter (around), trifledoze, estivate(also aestivate), hibernatelag, linger, loiter, poke, relax, rest, tarryamble, mosey, saunter, stroll, swanfurlough, goldbrick, malinger, truant kill time, twiddle one's thumbs drudge, grind, grub, hump, hustle, labor, moil, peg, plod, plow, plug, slave, sweat, toil, travail, workapply, buckle (down)exert, put out delay, procrastinate, lag, loiter, dawdle, dally mean to move or act slowly so as to fall behind.delay usually implies a putting off of something (such as a beginning or departure).we cannot delay any longer procrastinate implies blameworthy delay especially through laziness or apathy.procrastinates about making decisions lag implies failure to maintain a speed set by others.lagging behind in technology loiter and dawdle imply delay while in progress, especially in walking, but dawdle more clearly suggests an aimless wasting of time.loitered at several store windows children dawdling on their way home from school dally suggests delay through trifling or vacillation when promptness is necessary.stop dallying and get to work ca. 1656 |