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dawdler
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun dawdler has 1 sense
- dawdler(n = noun.person) drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer - someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind; Array is a kind of bum, do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer
has particulars: lingerer, loiterer, plodder, slowcoach, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud, potterer, putterer, straggler, strayer
Derived forms verb dawdle3, verb dawdle2, verb dawdle1
THESAURUS
dawdler
clock watcher, dallier, dawdle, diddler, dillydallier, do-nothing, dolittle, doodler, drone, faineant, foot-dragger, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, idler, laggard, lie-abed, lingerer, loafer, loiterer, loller, lotus-eater, lounger, lubber, mope, moper, plodder, potterer, procrastinator, putterer, sleepyhead, slouch, sloucher, slow goer, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slug, sluggard, snail, stick-in-the-mud, time killer, time waster, tortoise, trifler, waiter on Providence
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