What is a synonym for "whiles"?

Common synonyms include: dawdle, idle away, interval, intervals, pass time, periods.

Whiles

/(h)waɪlz/ adv, conj, noun, verb

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Noun

Verb

1
third-person singular simple present indicative of while form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

Adverb

1
sometimes; at times Scotland, archaic, not-comparable
"Man, I've diverted myself whiles with the science of the stars, and can make a shape at calculating a nativity."
2
meanwhile Scotland, archaic, not-comparable
"the good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour"

Conjunction

1
while, whilst archaic, dialectal
"Portia: […]Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer, another knocks at the door."

"Here is the paralysed woman of thirty-five who has for twenty years lain in bed the whiles her sister has worked incessantly to maintain her!"

Etymology 1

From while (noun) + -s (adverbial suffix); compare whilst.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.