Reverse Dictionary: DAWDLE

ADJECTIVES
1828 — POKEY — POKY slow, dawdling, sluggish → chiefly Amer.
1902 — LALLEN dawdling; of a child: hanging about its mother → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1903 — DAIDLEY dawdling → Sc.
1905 — HAMMER-TACKING dawdling; working in a half-hearted manner → Eng. dial. (Bk.)


NOUNS
1678 — SAUNTERING dawdling, trifling → obs.


NOUNS, PERSON
1538 — DRAW-LATCH a person who dawdles or lags behind → obs. exc. Eng.
dial.

1688 — SAUNTERER a dawdler, a trifler → obs.
..19C — TIFFY-TAFFY a dawdler, a trifler; one who works in an idle, trifling fashion → Eng. dial. 
1844 — POKE a dawdler, a stupid, boring, slow, or plodding person; a lazy person → Amer. dial.
1866 LATCH indolence; an indolent, dilatory person; a dawdler → Sc(Bk.)
1872 — PAUNDERER a dawdler, an idler → Sc.
1874 — MOREPORK a dawdler; a slowcoach; a stay-at-home → NZ colloq.
1893 — HA’PORTH OF LIVELINESS a dawdler; a slowcoach → sl. obs.
..L19 — AGTEROS a dawdler, a plodder, one who lags behind → S. Afr. sl.
1900 — DIDDLER a dawdler → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — DILL-DUCK a dawdling, idle, loitering woman → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — DINGLE a dawdler → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — DINGLER a dawdler → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — TARTLE TARTLER TARTLES a dawdler, a slow mover; a chatterbox, a waster of time → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1930 — TAIGLE a dawdling slut; an idle, lounging person → Sc.
1968 — DOODLER a dawdler; an idler → Amer. dial.
1998 — HANGNAIL a dawdler, a slow, shambling person; a slow driver → UK rhyming sl. for ‘snail’


VERBS
1568 JAKE JAUK to dawdle, to trifle, to delay → Sc.
1673 DADDLE to be slow in motion or action; to dawdle; to idle, to trifle, to waste time; to potter about; to saunter → colloq., later Sc. & Eng. dial.
1673 — SAUNTER to dawdle, to loiter over one’s work → obs.
1680 — DRINGLE to dawdle, to be slow; to waste time in a lazy, lingering manner → obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
..18C — FRIG to dawdle, to waste time → Brit. sl.
..E18 — SHAMMOCK to dawdle, to saunter, to walk in a shambling or idle way; to move slowly → Eng. & Amer. dial.
1741 — DILLY-DALLY to dawdle; to waste time → UK sl.
1774 — PIDDLE PIDDLE ABOUT PIDDLE AROUND to dawdle; to potter; to waste one’s time → Amer. dial.
1787 — DADDLE to dawdle, to saunter, to trifle; to walk or work slowly → Eng. dial.
1788 — GAMMER GAMMER ABOUT GAMMER AWAY to dawdle, to saunter, to idle, to trifle, to gossip → Eng. dial.
..19C — DRUTTLE to dawdle, to waste time, to trifle → Sc.
..19C — TIFFY-TAFFY to dawdle, to trifle → Eng. dial.
1801 — DRANGLE to dawdle, to linger, to loiter behind others on a road → Sc.
1811 POKE to potter about; to move or work in a desultory, ineffective, or dawdling way; to be slow
1825 LATCH to be slow or dilatory; to dawdle, to loiter, to procrastinate → Sc.
.M19 — AIR ONE’S HEELS to dawdle, to loiter about → sl.
.M19 BE MUG IN AND MUG OUT to dawdle, to prevaricate; to fail to make up one’s mind → sl.
1851 — DRIMBLE to dawdle, to loiter; to move slowly and without energy → Eng. dial.
1862 — LALLIGAG LALLYGAG LOLLIGAG LOLLYGAG to dawdle, to dally, to fool about → US sl.
1866 — HAIVER HAVER to dawdle, to potter about; to saunter, to lounge → Sc.
1866 — VAIPER to dawdle, to saunter, to stroll about aimlessly → Sc.
1868 — DIDDLE DIDDLE-DADDLE to waste time by dawdling; to busy oneself with trifles → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1876 — FADDLE to dawdle, to waste time; to walk slowly → Eng. dial.
1879 — DINGLE to dawdle, to loiter → Eng. dial.
1879 — MULL to dawdle, to loaf; to move sluggishly → Amer. dial.
1881 — FIRTLE to dawdle, to trifle, to appear busy and do little; to fidget, to move about distractedly → Eng. dial.
1883 — PARRY to dawdle, to trifle, to waste time, to delay in order to avoid action, to equivocate → Sc.
1884 — BROWSE AROUND to dawdle, to wander about idly; to loaf → Amer. dial.
1886 — DODDLE to walk feebly or slowly; to stroll, to saunter; to dawdle → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1889 — TANTLE to dawdle, to loiter, to waste time; trifle, to potter about → Eng. dial.
1890 — TEATLE to dawdle, to trifle; to idle away time → Eng. dial.
1892 — FOOTLE to dawdle, to trifle, to potter; to idle, to waste time → sl.
1892 — MARDLE to dawdle, to waste time in gossiping → Eng. dial.
..20C — PISS-ANT AROUND to dawdle, to waste time → Aust. sl.
1900 — DILVER to dawdle, to loiter, to hesitate → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — GRINDLE to dawdle → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 — LADLE to dawdle → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — SAIG to dawdle; to walk in a slow, aimless manner → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1908 — NATTLE to dawdle, to work slowly, to trifle → Sc.
1910 — FART ABOUT to dawdle, to mess around, to potter, to waste time in trifling activity; to behave foolishly or aimlessly → sl.
1913 — DACKLE to dawdle, to loiter, to slacken one’s pace → Sc.
1921 — TROTTLE to dawdle, to idle, to waste one’s time → Sc.
1923 — DRAG ANCHOR to dawdle, to move slowly; to drift mentally; to do less than one’s best → Amer. sl.
1923 — MUSHRAT MUSHRAT AROUND to dawdle, to idle → Amer. dial.
1931 — FART AROUND to dawdle, to mess around, to potter, to waste time in trifling activity; to behave foolishly or aimlessly → sl.
1940 — FART-ARSE FART-ARSE ABOUT FART-ARSE AROUND to dawdle, to mess around, to waste time → sl.
1950 — GOOF to dawdle, to waste time, to avoid work → sl.
1965 — BROWSE to dawdle, to wander about idly; to loaf → Amer. dial.
1965 — DOODLE to idle about, to dawdle → Amer. dial.
1966 — MESS to dawdle, to putter; to fool around; to kid around, to tease → Amer. dial.
1968 — FILL-THE-DOOTSY to dawdle, to fiddle around, to potter, to idle → Amer. dial.
1972 — FIDDLE-FART AROUND to dawdle, to loaf, to waste time → Amer. sl.
1975 — FIDDLE-FART to dawdle, to loaf, to waste time → Amer. dial.
1984 — FIDDLEFUCK AROUND to dawdle, to loaf, to waste time → Amer. dial.
1998 — FART ALONG to dawdle, to do something very slowly or without conviction → UK sl.