Usually means: Waste time; be slow, idle.
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  1. dawdle: Merriam-Webster
  2. dawdle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dawdle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dawdle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dawdle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dawdle, dawdle: Wordnik
  7. dawdle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dawdle: Wiktionary
  9. dawdle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dawdle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dawdle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dawdle, dawdle: Dictionary.com
  13. dawdle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dawdle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dawdle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dawdle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dawdle: Rhymezone
  18. Dawdle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dawdle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. dawdle: FreeDictionary.org
  21. dawdle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. dawdle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. dawdle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. dawdle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See dawdled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) Chiefly followed by away: to spend (time) without haste or purpose.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To spend time idly and unfruitfully; to waste time.
verb:  To move or walk lackadaisically.
noun:  An act of spending time idly and unfruitfully; a dawdling.
noun:  An act of moving or walking lackadaisically, a dawdling; a leisurely or slow walk or other journey.
noun:  Synonym of dawdler (“a person who dawdles or idles”)
noun:  Alternative spelling of doddle (“a job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple”) [(UK, Ireland, informal) A job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple.]

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