What does "dawdle" mean?

Dawdle: To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter. Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. Johnson. We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. Thackeray.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.
  2. 3.A dawdler. Colman & Carrick.

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