1. to move or act slowly; to waste time by being slow or idle

Examples

• Stop dawdling or we’ll be late for the movie.
• The children dawdled on their way to school, stopping to look at every interesting thing.
• She dawdled over her breakfast, reading the newspaper slowly.
• Don’t dawdle in the store; we have other errands to run.
• He tends to dawdle when he doesn’t want to do his homework.
• The tourists dawdled through the museum, taking their time at each exhibit.