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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working [syn: dalliance, dawdling, trifling]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. --Johnson. We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. --Thackeray.

Moby Thesaurus

dalliance, dallying, delaying, dilatoriness, dilatory, dillydallying, dolce far niente, dragging, goofing off, idling, lag, lagging, lazing, lingering, loafing, loitering, lolling, lollygagging, lounging, mopery, procrastination, procrastinative, procrastinatory, shilly-shallying, tarriance, tarrying, trifling, waiting