dawdling

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English

Etymology

From dawdle +‎ -ing.

Noun

dawdling (plural dawdlings)

  1. gerund of dawdle: the act of one who dawdles.
    • 1839, The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal:
      Buckingham might have mimicked the pedantry of his manners, and Coventry have complained of his interminable dawdlings and delays.
    • 1909, E.M. Forster, chapter I, in The Machine Stops:
      ‘Kuno, how slow you are.’ He smiled gravely. ‘I really believe you enjoy dawdling’.

Verb

dawdling

  1. present participle and gerund of dawdle

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