Stroll vs Dawdle - What's the difference?
stroll | dawdle |
To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants.
*, chapter=7
, title= To go somewhere with ease.
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*:His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ “Phil?! You?! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow?!” recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 29
, author=Neil Johnston
, title=Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn
, work=BBC Sport
* Johnson
To spend (time) without haste or purpose.
To move or walk lackadaisically.
* Thackeray
As nouns the difference between stroll and dawdle
is that stroll is a wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble while dawdle is a dawdler.As verbs the difference between stroll and dawdle
is that stroll is to wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove while dawdle is to spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.stroll
English
Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}
Synonyms
* range, roam, rove, straySee also
* strollerAnagrams
*dawdle
English
Verb
(dawdl)citation, page= , passage=However all Hennessey's good work went to waste on 52 minutes when he dawdled on the ball.}}
- 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.