DAWDLE

(verb) hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
synonyms : fall back , fall behind , lag
(verb) waste time
"Get busy--don't dally!"
synonyms : dally

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Despite our best intentions of not dawdling, it's hard to pass up the chance to check out a sunrise like this at the end of our morning ride.
(verb) take one's time; proceed slowly
synonyms : linger

Mnemonics for dawdle

(Tag: English) somewhat similar to idle
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(Tag: ) do dull ladke dawdle kar rahe hain.
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(Tag: english) In yahoo msngr,theres an environment called doodle which is meant for wasting time in yahoo and doodle is also a synonym of dawdle.
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(Tag: Hindi) PAIDAL(walk on foot)..some guys are walking PAIDAL in order to DAWDLE.
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(Tag: ) dawdle - similar to "Doodle" .. we can recollect "yankee doodle went to town riding on a ..." i.e loitering around, hand around .."stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni .." wasting time around .. doing silly stuff
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(Tag: shortkut) if u know what DOODLE is: it means drawing lines or something irrelevant while talking on phone or while sitting idle...so DODDLE which sounds like DAWDLE id wasting time
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