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dawdle | trek | Related terms |

Dawdle is a related term of trek.


As a verb dawdle

is to spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.

As a noun dawdle

is a dawdler.

As a proper noun trek is

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As an adjective trek is

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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

    trek

    English

    (wikipedia trek)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A slow or difficult journey.
    • We're planning on going on a trek up Kilimanjaro.
  • (South Africa) A journey by ox wagon.
  • (South Africa) The of 1835-1837.

    • Verb

    (trekk)
  • To make a slow or arduous journey.
  • To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
  • (South Africa) To travel by ox wagon.