Doddle vs Dawdle - What's the difference?
doddle | dawdle |
A job, task or other activity that is simple or easy to complete.
*2002 , The Economist,
*:Retailing in Europe's biggest economy, with 82m mostly well-off people, may sound a doddle . It is not.
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
As nouns the difference between doddle and dawdle
is that doddle is a job, task or other activity that is simple or easy to complete while dawdle is a dawdler.As a verb dawdle is
to spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.doddle
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Noun
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Synonyms
See also (an activity that is easy) * breeze * cakewalk * cinch * piece of cake * walk in the park * walkoverSee also
* doodledawdle
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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.