dawdle

Senso (Inglese)

Verb

1. (transitive) Chiefly followed by away: to spend (time) without haste or purpose.
2. (intransitive) To spend time idly and unfruitfully; to waste time.
3. (intransitive) To move or walk lackadaisically.

Noun

1. An act of spending time idly and unfruitfully; a dawdling.
2. An act of moving or walking lackadaisically, a dawdling; a leisurely or slow walk or other journey.
3. Synonym of dawdler (“a person who dawdles or idles”).

Noun

Alternative spelling of doddle (“a job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple”).

Concetti

bighellonare

gingillarsi

gironzolare

girovagare

oziare

passeggiare

🚶

perdere tempo

trastullarsi

battere la fiacca

restare indietro

gingillare

sinonimi

loiter

linger

dally

idle

procrastinate

loaf

delay

tarry

lag

waste time

potter about

laze

slow

lounge

hang out

dilly-dally

be slow

fall behind

take a long time

creep

putter

stroll

fall back

saunter

diddle

fool around

stall

take one’s time

temporize

lollop

tootle

vacillate

wait

walk

🚶

wander

whet

worm

🪱

do carelessly

lallygag

fiddle away

idle one’s time away

wander about

lounge around

dilly dally

act up

diily-dally

amble

bootlick

bum

buy time

Traduzioni

trödeln

oyalanmak

lambiner

perder el tiempo

aylaklık

tembellik

boşa geçirmek

flâner

nölen

χασομερώ

roncear

schlendern

demorar-se

seine Zeit vertrödeln

flanieren

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈdɔːdl̩/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Affine saterfriesisch: döädelje

Affine tedesco: daddeln

Affine tedesco: verdaddeln

In summary

The verb is possibly:
* a variant of daddle (“(Britain, dialectal) to walk or work slowly, dawdle, saunter, trifle”) or doddle (“(Britain, dialectal) to walk feebly or slowly, dawdle, idle, saunter, stroll”), possibly influenced by daw (“(Britain, dialectal) lazy, good-for-nothing person, sluggard”); or
* borrowed from Middle Low German dȫdelen (“to dawdle”), related to Saterland Frisian döädelje (“to dawdle”); compare also German daddeln (“to play”), German verdaddeln (“to waste (time), neglect, ruin”). All of these words are assumed to be of imitative origin.
The noun is derived from the verb.