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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 daw·dle /ˈdɔdḷ/
 (vi.)(vt.)遊手好閒,混日子

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Daw·dle v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dawdled p. pr. & vb. n. Dawdling ]  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.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Daw·dle, v. t. To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Daw·dle, n. A dawdler.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 dawdle
      v 1: take one's time; proceed slowly [syn: linger] [ant: rush]
      2: waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" [syn: dally]
      3: hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress,
         development, etc. [syn: lag, fall back, fall behind]