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Lingering vs Dawdling - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between lingering and dawdling

is that lingering is present participle of lang=en while dawdling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between lingering and dawdling

is that lingering is an act of lingering or waiting while dawdling is the act of one who dawdles.

lingering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of lingering or waiting.
  • * 2000 , David S. Reynolds, A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman (page 73)
    • But through this insistent rhythm and rhyme, there are only questions and parenthetical pauses, interruptions and lingerings .
  • That which lingers; a remnant.
  • * (Washington Irving)
    • The lingerings of decent pride were visible in her appearance. Her dress, though humble in the extreme, was scrupulously clean.

    dawdling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who dawdles.
  • * 1839 , The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal
    • Buckingham might have mimicked the pedantry of his manners, and Coventry have complained of his interminable dawdlings and delays.

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