dawdle
verb
[ ˈdɔːd(ə)l ]
• waste time; be slow.
• "she mustn't dawdle—she had to make the call now"
Similar:
linger,
dally,
take one's time,
drag one's feet,
be slow,
waste time,
kill time,
fritter time away,
idle,
delay,
procrastinate,
stall,
hang fire,
mark time,
potter about/around/round,
dilly-dally,
tarry,
Origin:
mid 17th century: related to dialect daddle, doddle ‘dally’.
