dawdle
daw duhl
- v take one's time; proceed slowly
- v waste time
- v hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
- Kartoo can be fun to play with, but only if you have time to dawdle.
- Any movie that luxuriates in decor and landscape will be seen to dawdle (Aren't these the passages we all skipped over in the novels our English teachers demanded we read?).
- Pollack's prediction: the new diet will end doctors' traditional tolerance for patients who dawdle over their convalescence.