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)

(obsolete) To walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt.

* 1728 , Alexander Pope, The Dunciad , Book III, ll. 140-4:

Lo next two slipshod Muses traipse along, In lofty madness, meditating song, / With tresses staring from poetic dreams, / And never wash'd, but in Castalia’s streams [...].

(colloquial) To walk about, especially when expending much effort, or unnecessary effort.

* 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses :

After traipsing about in the fog they found the grave sure enough.

(colloquial) To walk (a distance or journey) wearily or with effort; to walk about or over (a place).

* 1874 , Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd :

She only got handy the Union-house on Sunday morning 'a b'lieve, and 'tis supposed here and there that she had traipsed every step of the way from Melchester.