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Dawdle vs Loitering - What's the difference?

dawdle | loitering |

As verbs the difference between dawdle and loitering

is that dawdle is to spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time while loitering is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between dawdle and loitering

is that dawdle is a dawdler while loitering is the action of the verb {{term|loiter}.

dawdle

English

Verb

(dawdl)
  • To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Neil Johnston , title=Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=However all Hennessey's good work went to waste on 52 minutes when he dawdled on the ball.}}
  • * Johnson
    • Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me.
  • To spend (time) without haste or purpose.
    • to dawdle away the whole morning
  • To move or walk lackadaisically.
    • If you dawdle on your daily walk, you won't get as much exercise.
  • * Thackeray
    • We dawdle up and down Pall Mall.

    See also

    * dally, dander, dandle, diddle, loaf, piddle, wander, doodle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dawdler.

    • Anagrams

    * English intransitive verbs

    loitering

    English

    (wikipedia loitering)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • The action of the verb (loiter)