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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : dawd-l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɔd l |
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Définition of dawdling
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
- The man who has a habit of dawdling or listlessness will show it in everything he does.
- Extract from : « How to Succeed » by Orison Swett Marden
- The six were dawdling away our time one fine Sunday in Lynhurst Park.
- Extract from : « Aladdin & Co. » by Herbert Quick
- They had been dawdling over the dishes, and their eyes had frequently met.
- Extract from : « Sister Carrie » by Theodore Dreiser
- Either you must conquer your habit of dawdling,” he said, “or it will conquer you.
- Extract from : « Parkhurst Boys » by Talbot Baines Reed
- How soon I again fell a victim to dawdling the sequel will show.
- Extract from : « Parkhurst Boys » by Talbot Baines Reed
- We have been dawdling about in this wretched country long enough.
- Extract from : « Captain Bayley's Heir: » by G. A. Henty
- This is the method of Vacuity or Dawdling formerly mentioned.
- Extract from : « Assimilative Memory » by Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
- After this dawdling in the morning, they made up their minds to work in the afternoon.
- Extract from : « The Curate in Charge » by Margaret Oliphant
- We are in half a mind to leave this dawdling Haj, and go on with him to-morrow.
- Extract from : « A Pilgrimage to Nejd, Vol. 2 [of 2] » by Anne Blunt
- There was luncheon; some dawdling and scolding about the weather.
- Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old San Francisco » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
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