English-Thai Dictionary

dawdle

VI ชักช้า ร่ำไร  อืดอาด  เฉื่อย แฉะ  ฆ่าเวลา  idle lounge chak-cha-ram-rai

 

dawdle along

PHRV เดิน ไป เรื่อยๆ  เดิน เฉื่อยๆ  เดิน อย่าง เชื่อง ซึม  doen-pai-rueai-rueai

 

dawdle away

PHRV เสีย ไป โดย เปล่าประโยชน์ (เช่น เวลา  เสียเวลา  sia-pai-doi-plao-pra-yod

 

dawdle over

PHRV เสียเวลา ให้ กับ  dally over sia-we-la-hai-kab

 

dawdler

N คนที่ ชักช้า ร่ำไร  kon-ti-chak-cha-ram-rai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DAWDLE

v.i.To waste time; to trifle.

 

DAWDLER

n.A trifler.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DAWDLE

Daw "dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dawdled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dawdling.]Etym: [Cf. Daddle. ]

 

Defn: 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.

 

DAWDLE

DAWDLE Daw "dle, v. t.

 

Defn: To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.

 

DAWDLE

DAWDLE Daw "dle, n.

 

Defn: A dawdler. Colman & Carrick.

 

DAWDLER

DAWDLER Daw "dler, n.

 

Defn: One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

dawdle

daw dle |ˈdôdl ˈdɔdl | ▶verb [ no obj. ] waste time; be slow: I couldn't dawdle over my coffee any longer. • [ with adverbial of direction ] move slowly and idly: Ruth dawdled back through the woods. DERIVATIVES daw dler |ˈdôd (ə )lər |noun ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: related to dialect daddle, doddle ‘dally. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

dawdle

daw ¦dle |ˈdɔːd (ə )l | ▶verb [ no obj. ] waste time; be slow: she mustn't dawdle —she had to make the call now. • [ with adverbial of direction ] move slowly and idly in a particular direction: Ruth dawdled back through the wood. DERIVATIVES dawdler noun ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: related to dialect daddle, doddle ‘dally ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

dawdle

dawdle verb 1 they dawdled over breakfast: linger, dally, take one's time, be slow, waste time, idle; delay, procrastinate, stall, dilly-dally, lollygag; archaic tarry. ANTONYMS hurry. 2 Ruth dawdled home: amble, stroll, trail, walk slowly, move at a snail's pace; informal mosey, toodle. ANTONYMS hurry, speed. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD See loiter . These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

dawdle

dawdle verb 1 holidaymakers were dawdling over breakfast: 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. ANTONYMS hurry. 2 Ruth dawdled back through the wood: 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; Brit. informal pootle, mooch, swan; N. Amer. informal putter. ANTONYMS speed. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD dawdle, linger, loiter See linger . These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

dawdle

daw dle /dɔ́ːd (ə )l /動詞 自動詞 1 «…に » (ぐずぐず [だらだら ]と )時間をかける «over » .2 «…へ /…に沿って » ゆっくり進む «to , toward /along » .他動詞 〈時間 〉を浪費する (away ).