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Definition of dawdle in English: dawdleverb ˈdɔːd(ə)lˈdɔdl [no object]1Waste time; be slow. 浪费时间，拖延，磨蹭 she mustn't dawdle—she had to make the call now Example sentencesExamples - They dawdled and were successful in wasting the whole period in taking a single picture each.
- It was getting colder, the night drew in too quickly for his liking, and it was already dark as he left school and the thoughts that played on his mind slowed his walk and so he dawdled.
- When we are trying to go somewhere I sometimes feel that S. is dawdling and delaying.
- He dawdled on the ball at the corner flag and, when he should have been launching an attack, allowed Barry Nicholson to rob him.
- One thing that made her furious was that she could never afford to dawdle or look uncertain when she was in public.
- We were dawdling in the car park, when suddenly our bus came barelling round the corner.
- It shouldn't have taken us too long, but somehow we were slow, and we dawdled, and chatted, and I realised quite suddenly that we were going to be late.
- Are you dawdling, putting off doing the things that would help you move closer to the end result?
- So slowly Ella dawdled outside where she found Maddie sitting on the bench of a picnic table staring at a group of boys who were playing a game of touch football in the school yard.
- The Greek international dawdled and as he did so his captain stepped out of midfield and waved his arms madly at him.
- Not a lot of time for dawdling around in cafés and coffee bars today.
- Denny took my hand and tugged me toward the Saturn as I dawdled a bit.
- Those who dawdled with their doubts were diverting attention from important government work.
- No one dawdles or idles there, yet they just manage to cope with the job.
- He compared children's TV to a lazy caterpillar dawdling on a leaf.
- When the school run was necessitated, it was because I had dawdled over breakfast.
- When dawdling in Waterstones, the self-help aisle rarely calls my name.
- You may not be a hard pusher for one of your shortcomings may be that you dawdle a bit.
- Don't dawdle - questions must reach us by next Wednesday.
- I had dawdled a little bit at the beginning so I could keep back with the girls, but the rest of the run had felt a lot faster to me.
Synonyms linger, dally, take one's time, drag one's feet, be slow, waste time, kill time, fritter time away, idle delay, procrastinate, stall, hang fire, mark time, potter about/around/round informal dilly-dally, let the grass grow under one's feet archaic or literary tarry - 1.1with adverbial of direction Move slowly and idly in a particular direction.
闲逛 Ruth dawdled back through the wood 露丝悠闲地穿过树林走了回来。 Example sentencesExamples - We could have dawdled around Kettlewell's charming nooks and crannies but had a hill to climb, no less a lump than Great Whernside.
- There's not much to do here but fish, dive, watch the sun sizzle down into the Indian Ocean and to dawdle your bicycle along the island's one path.
- Rail chiefs say the whistle is so loud it makes passengers hurry onto trains rather than dawdling along the platform - and makes trains stick to timetables.
- For a Saturday the store was very busy, as customers dawdled up and down the newly stocked aisles.
- It was quite funny coming back - Clare, Sandra and I decided to dawdle back to the History Room, so went along the Middle Corridor, and stood there waving to people on the Art Room balcony.
- As we dawdled along Sean asked me, ‘What would you say if I told you I loved you?’
- We dawdled in the general direction of the city and then sat around in Bow looking down at the cars zizzing past at high speed.
- I moved on and turned right away from the docks and dawdled along doing some inconsequential window-shopping as I went.
- Actually we dawdled through Dulwich Village and then hurried to the Park just as it was closing.
- For a couple of the hottest nights we slept up on deck, too, watching the satellites dawdle across the Milky Way
- As I dawdled through a hamlet with about 10 miles to go, I noticed my handling seemed to be going and stopped.
- I've seen plenty of them, dawdling down the footpath, checking out the gardens, smiling away at everyone.
- It dawdles across the sky and sets slowly at a glancing angle.
- American hard rockers Amen have been quiet in the UK but have signed a major deal in the States and the shambolic Alfie are still dawdling along albeit somewhat aimlessly.
- Led by a fully qualified fitness instructor, there's no time for dawdling around the centre and doing a little window shopping.
- Yet it had all started so promisingly that those fans who dawdled on their way to the match might have missed the first try.
- I slowed my pace and dawdled along the edge of the river.
Synonyms amble, stroll, go/walk slowly, loiter (along), move at a snail's pace, not keep pace, hold back, lag behind, fall behind, trail behind informal mosey, tootle British informal pootle, bimble, mooch, swan North American informal putter
Derivativesnoun ˈdɔːd(ə)ləˈdɔdlər This means that the car threads through traffic with ease and overtakes dawdlers in a flash. Example sentencesExamples - On Sunday, two boys and two girls were mixing with the general gathering - window-shoppers, dawdlers, and so on - carrying signboards that said, ‘crazy sales’.
- As he scrubbed shampoo quickly through his hair (he wasn't a dawdler showering type), he stared moodily out the small window out at the ocean.
- For early morning dawdlers, make sure that there is an established routine and that each child knows what is expected of him.
- Dalliers, dawdlers and daydreamers learn to camouflage their lack of achievement in torrents of words.
- After a 2 minute shuffle of dawdlers assembling themselves, Ms. Fellcart flicked on the over-head projector and began jotting down the groups.
OriginMid 17th century: related to dialect daddle, doddle 'dally'. Definition of dawdle in US English: dawdleverbˈdɔdlˈdôdl [no object]1Waste time; be slow. 浪费时间，拖延，磨蹭 I couldn't dawdle over my coffee any longer 我不能再在咖啡上浪费时间了。 Example sentencesExamples - They dawdled and were successful in wasting the whole period in taking a single picture each.
- He compared children's TV to a lazy caterpillar dawdling on a leaf.
- Don't dawdle - questions must reach us by next Wednesday.
- He dawdled on the ball at the corner flag and, when he should have been launching an attack, allowed Barry Nicholson to rob him.
- When the school run was necessitated, it was because I had dawdled over breakfast.
- Not a lot of time for dawdling around in cafés and coffee bars today.
- One thing that made her furious was that she could never afford to dawdle or look uncertain when she was in public.
- You may not be a hard pusher for one of your shortcomings may be that you dawdle a bit.
- When we are trying to go somewhere I sometimes feel that S. is dawdling and delaying.
- It was getting colder, the night drew in too quickly for his liking, and it was already dark as he left school and the thoughts that played on his mind slowed his walk and so he dawdled.
- It shouldn't have taken us too long, but somehow we were slow, and we dawdled, and chatted, and I realised quite suddenly that we were going to be late.
- Those who dawdled with their doubts were diverting attention from important government work.
- When dawdling in Waterstones, the self-help aisle rarely calls my name.
- Denny took my hand and tugged me toward the Saturn as I dawdled a bit.
- We were dawdling in the car park, when suddenly our bus came barelling round the corner.
- I had dawdled a little bit at the beginning so I could keep back with the girls, but the rest of the run had felt a lot faster to me.
- No one dawdles or idles there, yet they just manage to cope with the job.
- So slowly Ella dawdled outside where she found Maddie sitting on the bench of a picnic table staring at a group of boys who were playing a game of touch football in the school yard.
- Are you dawdling, putting off doing the things that would help you move closer to the end result?
- The Greek international dawdled and as he did so his captain stepped out of midfield and waved his arms madly at him.
Synonyms linger, dally, take one's time, drag one's feet, be slow, waste time, kill time, fritter time away, idle - 1.1with adverbial of direction Move slowly and idly.
Ruth dawdled back through the woods 露丝悠闲地穿过树林走了回来。 Example sentencesExamples - We dawdled in the general direction of the city and then sat around in Bow looking down at the cars zizzing past at high speed.
- We could have dawdled around Kettlewell's charming nooks and crannies but had a hill to climb, no less a lump than Great Whernside.
- Led by a fully qualified fitness instructor, there's no time for dawdling around the centre and doing a little window shopping.
- I slowed my pace and dawdled along the edge of the river.
- Yet it had all started so promisingly that those fans who dawdled on their way to the match might have missed the first try.
- American hard rockers Amen have been quiet in the UK but have signed a major deal in the States and the shambolic Alfie are still dawdling along albeit somewhat aimlessly.
- For a Saturday the store was very busy, as customers dawdled up and down the newly stocked aisles.
- As I dawdled through a hamlet with about 10 miles to go, I noticed my handling seemed to be going and stopped.
- I've seen plenty of them, dawdling down the footpath, checking out the gardens, smiling away at everyone.
- For a couple of the hottest nights we slept up on deck, too, watching the satellites dawdle across the Milky Way
- As we dawdled along Sean asked me, ‘What would you say if I told you I loved you?’
- There's not much to do here but fish, dive, watch the sun sizzle down into the Indian Ocean and to dawdle your bicycle along the island's one path.
- Rail chiefs say the whistle is so loud it makes passengers hurry onto trains rather than dawdling along the platform - and makes trains stick to timetables.
- I moved on and turned right away from the docks and dawdled along doing some inconsequential window-shopping as I went.
- It was quite funny coming back - Clare, Sandra and I decided to dawdle back to the History Room, so went along the Middle Corridor, and stood there waving to people on the Art Room balcony.
- Actually we dawdled through Dulwich Village and then hurried to the Park just as it was closing.
- It dawdles across the sky and sets slowly at a glancing angle.
Synonyms amble, stroll, go slowly, walk slowly, loiter, loiter along, move at a snail's pace, not keep pace, hold back, lag behind, fall behind, trail behind
OriginMid 17th century: related to dialect daddle, doddle ‘dally’. |