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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : dawd-l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɔd l |
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Définition of dawdled
Origin :- 1650s, perhaps a variant of daddle "to walk unsteadily." Perhaps influenced by daw, because the bird was regarded as sluggish and silly. Not in general use until c.1775. Related: Dawdled; dawdling.
- verb delay; waste time
- In all that did not directly concern her he had dawdled, and Dorothy knew and resented it.
- Extract from : « Peak and Prairie » by Anna Fuller
- For all that, he dawdled not a moment longer than he could help.
- Extract from : « Follow My leader » by Talbot Baines Reed
- But of all my infant duties the one I dawdled over most was going to sleep.
- Extract from : « Parkhurst Boys » by Talbot Baines Reed
- It was late in the afternoon before Patty dawdled downstairs.
- Extract from : « Patty's Success » by Carolyn Wells
- We have dawdled to the end of the dawdling period, and come to the active one.
- Extract from : « The Riddle of the Mysterious Light » by Mary E. Hanshew
- He dawdled two precious weeks away at Tours; then he went to Loches, and dawdled there.
- Extract from : « Joan of Arc » by Laura E. Richards
- I exclaimed, as he dawdled up to me at the hot and dusty station.
- Extract from : « Miss Cayley's Adventures » by Grant Allen
- Some dawdled, window shopped, or strolled along for the air.
- Extract from : « Combat » by Dallas McCord Reynolds
- Time is too precious to be dawdled away then, and a man lives every minute of it.
- Extract from : « The Dealings of Captain Sharkey » by A. Conan Doyle
- Had we dawdled less we might have gone much earlier from Charing Cross.
- Extract from : « The Happy Golfer » by Henry Leach
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