Daw″dle (da̤″d'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Dawdled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Dawdling (?).] [Cf. Daddle.] To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. Johnson.
We... dawdle up and down Pall Mall. Thackeray.