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    [Verb]  | "daw*dle" | \ ˈdȯ-dᵊl \


    1: to spend time idly

    2: to move lackadaisically

    3: to spend fruitlessly or lackadaisically


    Origin: circa 1656 ;

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    [Adjective]  | "dawdling" 


    1: moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speed;


      * e.g., " ... the dawdling pace of the movie was really making us restless "





    [Verb]  | "dawdling" 


    1: to move or act slowly;


      * e.g., " ... if you continue to dawdle, we'll be late for sure "





    2: to spend time doing nothing;


      * e.g., " ... accused the city council of dawdling even as the crime rate was spiraling out of control "



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    [Verb]  | "dawdle" 


    1: to move or act slowly;


      * e.g., " ... if you continue to dawdle, we'll be late for sure "





    2: to spend time doing nothing;


      * e.g., " ... accused the city council of dawdling even as the crime rate was spiraling out of control "



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     [ "dawdle" ]

    1: move slowly or take up time

      * e.g.,  ... i cant dawdle over my coffee much longer 

     [ "Dawdling" ]

    1: Starin n wastin time

      * e.g.,  ... Yo quit Dawdling dude!!! 

     [ "dawdle" ]

    1: (noun) Something that doesn't ever ripen but proceeds to rot.

      * e.g.,  ... He never gets anything accomplished even though he appears to work a lot. He's dawdle. 

     [ "Dawdle" ]

    1: To move or run at an extreme speed.

      * e.g.,  ... They dawdled to the finish line. 

     [ "dawdled (verb)" ]

    1: To procrastinate to the point of never getting anything done.

      * e.g.,  ... Doug "dawdled (verb)" through the paperwork process, so that in the end, someone else had to pick up his slack. 

     [ "del.icio.us dawdle" ]

    1: Wasting time by looking at people's bookmarks on del.icio.us, usually someone you found because you've saved the same link.

      * e.g.,  ... danah likes to reconstruct the identity of a user from bookmarks she encounters during a del.icio.us dawdle, but it's mostly apophenia. 

     [ "Sack Dawdling" ]

    1: It is when you drop your ass-ball (or vagina) connection into someone's face

      * e.g.,  ... She fell, so i decided to start sack dawdling her 

     [ "dawdle" ]

    1: a subject that was argued about in an 8th grade Career Exploration class

      * e.g.,  ... Dave: Dawdle means someone who drives slow! 

     [ "Dawdling" ]

    1: A term used to refer to the process of joining a fraternity. Synonymous to rushing, but often used at Brown University to differentiate from rushing a sorority.

      * e.g.,  ... A: Bro, you rushing Sig Ep? 

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