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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abide, await, bide, bide the issue, clock watcher, continue, dallier, dally, dawdler, delay, diddle, diddler, dillydallier, dillydally, do-nothing, dolittle, doodle, doodler, drag, drag out, draw out, drone, dwell on, extend, faineant, fall behind, falter, flag, foot-dragger, gentleman of leisure, get behind, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof off, goof-off, halt, hang about, hang around, hang back, hold everything, hold on, hold your horses, idle, idler, lag, laggard, laze, lengthen, lengthen out, lie-abed, linger, linger behind, linger on, lingerer, loafer, loiter, loiterer, loller, lollygag, lotus-eater, lounge, lounger, lubber, mark time, mope, moper, piddle, plodder, poke, potterer, procrastinate, procrastinator, prolong, protract, putterer, shilly-shally, sit tight, sit up, sleepyhead, slouch, sloucher, slow goer, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slug, sluggard, snail, spin out, stay, stay up, stick around, stick-in-the-mud, straggle, stretch out, take time, tarry, temporize, time killer, time waster, tortoise, trail, trail behind, trifler, wait, wait a minute, wait and see, waiter on Providence, waste time
Dictionary Results for dawdle:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
dawdle
    v 1: take one's time; proceed slowly [syn: linger, dawdle]
         [ant: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along,
         hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush,
         rush along, speed, step on it]
    2: waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" [syn: dally, dawdle]
    3: hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress,
       development, etc. [syn: lag, dawdle, fall back, fall
       behind]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dawdle \Daw"dle\ (d[add]"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.
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         Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with
         me.                                      --Johnson.
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         We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall.   --Thackeray.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dawdle \Daw"dle\, v. t.
   To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dawdle \Daw"dle\, n.
   A dawdler. --Colman & Carrick.
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