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Teeter vs Dawdle - What's the difference?

teeter | dawdle |

As verbs the difference between teeter and dawdle

is that teeter is to tilt back and forth on an edge while dawdle is to spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.

As a noun dawdle is

a dawdler.

teeter

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To tilt back and forth on an edge.

    • Derived terms

    * teeterer * teeter-totter * teeterboard

    Anagrams

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    dawdle

    English

    Verb

    (dawdl)
  • 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 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