Verb

(dawdl)

To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.

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* 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.

Verb

(en verb)

To speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle.

* Sir Walter Scott

He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils.

* 1834 , , v. 3, ch. V:

"Not so fast, Lady Cecilia; not yet;" and now Louisa went on with a medical maundering . "As to low spirits, my dear Cecilia, I must say I agree with Sir Sib Pennyfeather, who tells me it is not mere common low spirits "

* 1871 , , ch. IV:

On the following day my friend's exhaustion had become so great that I began to fear his intelligence altogether broken up. But toward evening he briefly rallied, to maunder about many things, confounding in a sinister jumble the memories of the past weeks and those of bygone years.

* 1889 , , ch. XVII:

"What are you maundering about? He's going out from here a free man and whole—he's not going to die."

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To wander or walk aimlessly.