Dawdle vs Perambulate - What's the difference?
dawdle | perambulate | Related terms |
To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.
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* Johnson
To spend (time) without haste or purpose.
To move or walk lackadaisically.
* Thackeray
To walk about, roam or stroll.
To inspect (an area) on foot.
Dawdle is a related term of perambulate.
In lang=en terms the difference between dawdle and perambulate
is that dawdle is to move or walk lackadaisically while perambulate is to inspect (an area) on foot.As verbs the difference between dawdle and perambulate
is that dawdle is to spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time while perambulate is to walk about, roam or stroll.As a noun dawdle
is a dawdler.dawdle
English
Verb
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- Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me.
- to dawdle away the whole morning
- If you dawdle on your daily walk, you won't get as much exercise.
- We dawdle up and down Pall Mall.
