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Dawdle vs Scoot - What's the difference?

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Dawdle is a related term of scoot.


As verbs the difference between dawdle and scoot

is that dawdle is to spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time while scoot is (split) to walk fast; to go quickly; to run away hastily.

As nouns the difference between dawdle and scoot

is that dawdle is a dawdler while scoot is (slang) a dollar.

dawdle

English

Verb

(dawdl)
  • To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.
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    • , 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

    scoot

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A dollar.
  • (slang) a scooter.
  • :I got a new scoot yesterday. It's a Gamma.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (split) To walk fast; to go quickly; to run away hastily.
    • They scooted over to the window.
  • To ride on a .
  • (of an animal) To move with the forelegs while sitting, so that the floor rubs against its rear end.
    • The dog was scooting all over our new carpet.
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    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "scoot")

    Derived terms

    * scoot over

    Anagrams

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