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dawdle 音标拼音: [d'ɔdəl] vi.
vt. 游手好闲,混日子 游手好闲,混日子 dawdle v 1: take one' s time; proceed slowly [ synonym: { linger}, { dawdle}] [ ant: { belt along}, { bucket along}, { cannonball along}, { hasten}, { hie}, { hotfoot}, { pelt along}, { race}, { rush}, { rush along}, { speed}, { step on it}] 2: waste time; " Get busy-- don' t dally!" [ synonym: { dally}, { dawdle}] 3: hang ( back) or fall ( behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. [ synonym: { lag}, { dawdle}, { fall back}, { fall behind}] Dawdle \ Daw" dle\ ( d[ add]" d' l), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Dawdled}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Dawdling}.] [ Cf. { Daddle}.] To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter. [ 1913 Webster] Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. -- Johnson. [ 1913 Webster] We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. -- Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster]
Dawdle \ Daw" dle\, v. t. To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning. [ 1913 Webster]
Dawdle \ Daw" dle\, n. A dawdler. -- Colman & Carrick. [ 1913 Webster] 109 Moby Thesaurus words for " dawdle": abide, await, bide, bide the issue, clock watcher, continue, dallier, dally, dawdler, delay, diddle, diddler, dillydallier, dillydally, do- nothing, dolittle, doodle, doodler, drag, drag out, draw out, drone, dwell on, extend, faineant, fall behind, falter, flag, foot- dragger, gentleman of leisure, get behind, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof off, goof- off, halt, hang about, hang around, hang back, hold everything, hold on, hold your horses, idle, idler, lag, laggard, laze, lengthen, lengthen out, lie- abed, linger, linger behind, linger on, lingerer, loafer, loiter, loiterer, loller, lollygag, lotus- eater, lounge, lounger, lubber, mark time, mope, moper, piddle, plodder, poke, potterer, procrastinate, procrastinator, prolong, protract, putterer, shilly- shally, sit tight, sit up, sleepyhead, slouch, sloucher, slow goer, slow- foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slug, sluggard, snail, spin out, stay, stay up, stick around, stick- in- the- mud, straggle, stretch out, take time, tarry, temporize, time killer, time waster, tortoise, trail, trail behind, trifler, wait, wait a minute, wait and see, waiter on Providence, waste time
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