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▪ I. dawdling, vbl. n.|ˈdɔːdlɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb dawdle.
1819[see dawdle v. 1]. 1849Thackeray Lett. 13 July, Ryde..would be as nice a place as any..for dawdling, and getting health. 1875Baroness Bunsen in Hare Life II. viii. 457 With old age comes dawdling, that is, doing everything too slowly.
▪ II. ˈdawdling, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That dawdles; characterized by dawdling.
1773F. Burney Early Diary 3 May, The mother is a slow, dawdling, sleepy kind of dame. 1782― Diary 8 Dec., With whom I had a dawdling conversation upon dawdling subjects. 1843Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 265 The dreaming, reading, dawdling existence which best suits me.
Hence ˈdawdlingly adv.
1860Sat. Rev. IX. 145/1 Some very important Bill which..has been dawdlingly postponed from day to day. |