Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Dawdle

Dawdle (da"d'l) , intransitive verb

[Compare Daddle.]

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 , transitive verb

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

Dawdle , noun

A dawdler. — Colman & Carrick