dawdle
Meaning of dawdle
verb
- waste time; be slow.
she mustn't dawdle—she had to make the call now
mid 17th century: related to dialect daddle, doddle ‘dally’.
Information about dawdle
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of dawdle is: dawdles.
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Hyphenation of dawdle
daw-dle
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- dawdle is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
dawdle synonyms
Meaning linger:
Meaning dally:
Meaning lag:
Meaning move aimlessly or lazily:
Meaning be late or slow; loiter:
Meaning delay or postpone action; put off doing something:
Meaning (of a motor vehicle or its engine) stop running, typically because of an overload on the engine:
Meaning like or covered with tar:
dawdle antonyms
Meaning move or act with great haste:
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