dawdle

1. (transitive) Chiefly followed by away: to spend (time) without haste or purpose.Examples: "to dawdle away the whole morning"; "[M]anaging to live on terms with both / Opposing potentates, the Power and you, / Crowned with success, but dawdle out my days / In exile here at Clairvaux, with mock love, […]"transitive

2. (intransitive)Examples: "Tell him, if he'll call on me, and davvdle over a diſh of tea in an afternoon, I ſhall take it kind."; "Mr. Collins was not left long to the silent contemplation of his successful love; for Mrs. Bennett, having dawdled about in the vestibule to watch for the end of the conference, no sooner saw Elizabeth open the door and with quick step pass he towards the staircase, than she entered the breakfast-room, and congratulated both him and herself in warm terms on the happy prospect of their nearer connection."; "You all know when you learn with a will, and when you dawdle. There's no doubt of conscience about that, I suppose?"Synonyms: dally, dilly-dally, take one's time, arse about, arse around, bludge, bum around, cabbageintransitive

3. (intransitive)Examples: "If you dawdle on your daily walk, you won’t get as much exercise."; "[W]e, who, in muddy boots, dawdle up and down Pall Mall, and peep into the coaches as they drive up with the great folks in their feathers— […]"; "[…] I began to wonder if this Arthur were really the same lad she used to pet and think so much of when he came down to Leatherhead and dawdled with my Lady and Bell along the Surrey lanes of an evening."Synonyms: loiterintransitive