PROCRASTINATE, PROCRASTINATING, PROCRASTINATION, PROCRASTINATOR
ADJECTIVES
► AFTERNOON late in performing any work, procrastinating; dilatory, slow → 1750 Eng. dial.
► CUNCTATORY disposed to delay or linger; procrastinating → 1824
► DELAYOUS given to delay; dilatory; procrastinating → 1469 obs.
► TO-MORROWING procrastinating → 1824
NOUNS
► DRIFT putting off, delay, procrastination → a1558 Sc. obs.
► MAFFLING procrastination, bungling → 1835 Sc.
► OFF-PUTTING a putting off; delay, procrastination → 1387
► TARRIAGE ► TARYAGE tarrying; delay, postponement, procrastination → c1470 obs.
► TARRIANCE the act of tarrying; delay, postponement, procrastination → 1460 arch.
► TARRY the act of tarrying; spending or loss of time; delay, procrastination → c1375 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► FODGE to proceed, to happen; also, to thrive, to take shape → 1581 obs.
► FORTHPASS to pass forth, to go, to proceed → 1382 obs.
► GUNNA a procrastinator → 1996 Aust. sl.
► MAN OF MANY MORNS a procrastinator → 1866 Sc.
► OFF-PUT one who or that which delays, a procrastinator → 1856 Sc.
► PAY AWAY to proceed, to continue → 1670 colloq.
► PERGE to go on, to proceed → 1607 obs.
► PUT to proceed, to pass, to make one’s way → a1382 obs.
► SAUTHER-POKE a loiterer, a procrastinator → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SYE to go, to proceed → a1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TARRIER one who tarries or delays; a lingerer, a procrastinator; one who stays or remains → 1382 arch.
► TO-MORROWER one who puts off till tomorrow; a procrastinator → 1810
VERBS
► BE A MAN OF MANY MORNS to be a procrastinator → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► CRASTINATE to delay from day to day, to prolong, to defer, to procrastinate → 1656 obs.
► DRIFT to put off, to delay, to defer, to procrastinate → 1584 Sc. obs.
► FART OFF to fool around; to shirk one’s duties; to blunder through inattention; to procrastinate → 1968 Amer. sl.
► IK AND AN’ to hum and haw, to procrastinate → 1939 Sc.
► LATCH to be slow or dilatory; to dawdle, to loiter, to procrastinate → 1825 Sc.
► LAY OFF to procrastinate, to delay, to put off → 1975 Amer. dial.
► LUNCH to act in a silly or irrational manner; to overreact; to procrastinate → 1980s African-American & teen sl.
► MAFFLE to procrastinate, to waste time; to work in a muddled, bungling manner → 1835 Sc.
► POLLYFOX ► POLLYFOX AROUND to equivocate, to quibble, to procrastinate; to waste time, to dilly-dally, to delay and discuss → 1873 Amer. dial.
► PROROGUE to delay; to procrastinate → 1593 obs.
► TIME IT OUT to procrastinate, to delay, to spin out the time → 1613 obs.
► WAG to procrastinate; to find it hard to make any decisions → 19C African-American sl.