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.
dawdling
n : the deliberate act of wasting time instead of working [syn:
dalliance, trifling, wasting time]