Crossword-Solution: DAWDLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Dawdle | v. i. | To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter. |
| Dawdle | v. t. | To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning. |
| Dawdle | n. | A dawdler. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| DAWDLE | anagram | DELAWD, WADDLE |
We have 85 clues for the answer “DAWDLE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Don’t hurry | 1 answer |
| walk slowly, lag behind | 1 answer |
| Dillydally or shilly-shally | 1 answer |
| Take one's own sweet time | 1 answer |
| Take forever to get moving | 1 answer |
| Opposite of rush | 1 answer |
| Move slowly and idly | 1 answer |
| Don't exactly jump on it | 1 answer |
| Fail to show ambulatory urgency | 1 answer |
| Be poky | 2 answers |
| Linger around | 2 answers |
| Linger aimlessly | 2 answers |
| BE late | 3 answers |
| Take one's sweet time | 4 answers |
| HURRY (ant.) | 6 answers |
| idle away | 7 answers |
| Lallygag | 7 answers |
| DROP back | 7 answers |
| gain time | 8 answers |
| Potter | 9 answers |
| Lollygag | 10 answers |
| A WILLFUL WASTE OF TIME | 11 answers |
| Brogue | 11 answers |
| Drag one's feet | 11 answers |
| Wade | 11 answers |
| shamble | 11 answers |
| Shilly-shally | 12 answers |
| hoof it | 15 answers |
| Loll | 16 answers |
| plod | 17 answers |
| Mosey | 17 answers |
| Paddle | 17 answers |
| Dilly-dally | 18 answers |
| take time | 19 answers |
| Fritter (away) | 19 answers |
| *Fall behind | 19 answers |
| Hang around | 22 answers |
| filibuster | 23 answers |
| prorogue | 23 answers |
| Trudge | 24 answers |
| protract | 25 answers |
| Laze | 25 answers |
| Crawl | 26 answers |
| foot it | 29 answers |
| Decelerate | 30 answers |
| Loaf | 31 answers |
| Mooch | 32 answers |
| Procrastinate. | 32 answers |
| Move Furtively | 32 answers |
| Hobble | 33 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
EEN
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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Sentences with DAWDLE (5)
What ought they to be in China? All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind.
Well, to make a long story short, that's the way we spent the next nine or ten days: that sinner would go out in the morning with his satisfied, leisurely pace, to dawdle around the streets while I was out hoofing it for him.
The vacation is nearly over, the stints are all done, and we are ever so glad that we didn’t dawdle.” “Yes, I should think so,” and Laurie thought regretfully of his own idle days.
Absorbed in Hugh, asking a hundred questions about him--had he had any colds? did he still dawdle over his oatmeal? what about unfortunate morning incidents? she viewed Aunt Bessie only as a source of information, and was able to ignore her hint, pointed by a coyly shaken finger, “Now that you've had such a fine long trip and spent so much money and all, I hope you're going to settle down and be satisfied and not----” “Does he like carrots yet?” replied Carol.
Generally, I dawdled over my breakfast and I seldom took the trouble to ring the bell for the table to be cleared away; but on that morning, for some reason hidden in the general mysteriousness of the event, I did not dawdle.
Quotes with DAWDLE (3)
Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels. Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.
A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it's not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off; and if only once to stumble upon a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another, mislay your keys in the grass; and t…
Music does that; I would often dawdle home to make it last, all calm and wide awake and bouncing-still, and music would be everywhere, in everything.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 28 times in crossword archives (1983–2024).