dawdle
verb (dawdle, dawdles, dawdled, dawdling)
Everyday
To dawdle is to walk or do something too slowly, wasting time. tree →
In the lessons
Common in parents' and teachers' talk («Don't dawdle!»), school mornings, stories.
Examples
- Don't dawdle, we'll miss the bus! tree →
- He dawdled on his way to school. tree →
- Stop dawdling and finish your breakfast. tree →
- She dawdled behind, looking at shop windows. tree →
- The tortoise didn't dawdle; it kept going. tree →
- If you dawdle in the shop, the ice cream will melt. tree →
- I know when I may dawdle and when I may not." tree →
Note
Informal. Person: dawdler. Similar: dilly-dally, loiter.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «dawdle» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «dawdle» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
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