dawdler

daw·dle  (dôdl)

v. daw·dled, daw·dling, daw·dles

v.intr.

1. To take more time than necessary: dawdled through breakfast.

2. To move aimlessly or lackadaisically: dawdling on the way to work.

v.tr.

To waste (time) by idling: dawdling the hours away.

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[Perhaps alteration of dialectal daddle, to diddle.]

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dawdler n.

dawdling·ly adv.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

dawdler - someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind laggard, lagger, trailer, poke, drone do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, bum - person who does no work; "a lazy bum" lingerer, loiterer - someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place slowcoach, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud, plodder - someone who moves slowly; "in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach" potterer, putterer - a person who putters about straggler, strayer - someone who strays or falls behind

Translations

dawdler [ˈdɔːdləʳ] N (= idler) → holgazán/ana m/f, ocioso/a m/f; (= slowcoach) → rezagado/a m/f

dawdler

n → Trödler(in) m(f); (as regards work also) → Bummelant(in) m(f) (inf)

dawdler [ˈdɔːdləʳ] n → bighellone/a, fannullone/a

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dawdler [ˈdɔːdləʳ] n → bighellone/a, fannullone/a