Don't dawdle on the way home.
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Dawdle
//ˈdɔːdl̩//
Synonyms for "dawdle" (184 found)
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Closest matches (37)
Strong matches (55)
Related words (92)
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More general
11 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesderived
4 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entriesrelated to
7 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
163 translations across 46 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- sjell verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Arabic
1 entries- قز verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Bulgarian
2 entries- безделнича verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- шляя се verb (to move or walk lackadaisically)
Catalan
4 entries- entretenir-se verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- gallinejar verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- ronsejar verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- torbar verb (to spend (time) without haste or purpose)
Cebuano
1 entries- nagpainday-inday verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Chinese
1 entries- 挨絲撓倚 /挨丝挠倚 verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 咪咪摸摸 verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- 咪摸 verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 夋 verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- 夌 verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- 磨 verb (to spend (time) without haste or purpose)
- 磨叽 verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Czech
3 entries- flákat se verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- lelkovat verb (to spend (time) without haste or purpose)
- poflakovat se verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Danish
4 entries- daske verb (to move or walk lackadaisically)
- dovne verb (to spend (time) without haste or purpose)
- dovne verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- drive verb (to move or walk lackadaisically)
Dutch
4 entries- dralen verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- klungelen verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- leuteren verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- talmen verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
East Central German
4 entries- attln verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- attln verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- dalln verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- damprn verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Esperanto
2 entries- lanti verb (to spend (time) without haste or purpose)
- lanti verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Finnish
4 entries- himmailla verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- kuhnailla verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- kuhnia verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- kuhnustella verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
French
4 entries- flâner verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- lambiner verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- musarder verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- pateter verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Galician
2 entries- enredar verb (to spend (time) without haste or purpose)
- enredar verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
German
4 entries- Zeit totschlagen verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- bummeln verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- bummeln verb (to move or walk lackadaisically)
- herumbummeln verb (to spend (time) without haste or purpose)
Haitian Creole
2 entries- flannen verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- mize verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Hakka Chinese
2 entries- 咪咪摸摸 verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- 咪摸 verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Hebrew
1 entries- הִתְמַהְמֵהַּ verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Hungarian
4 entries- cselleng verb (to move or walk lackadaisically)
- csámborog verb (to move or walk lackadaisically)
- elpiszmog verb (to spend (time) without haste or purpose)
- elszöszmötöl verb (to spend (time) without haste or purpose)
Icelandic
1 entries- drolla verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Interlingua
1 entries- tardar verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Italian
4 entries- bighellonare verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- gingillarsi verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- lellare verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- traccheggiàre verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Jamaican Creole
1 entries- lime verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Japanese
4 entries- だらだらする verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- ちんたらする verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- 油を売る verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- 道草する verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Latin
1 entries- cūnctor verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Low German
1 entries- draueln verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- driibsen verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Macedonian
4 entries- одолговле́кува verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- се вле́чка verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- се вле́чка verb (to move or walk lackadaisically)
- се за́влечка verb (to spend (time) without haste or purpose)
Malagasy
1 entries- mihebinkenina verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Māori
4 entries- hāmure verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- taparuru verb (to move or walk lackadaisically)
- tonanawe verb (to move or walk lackadaisically)
- whakatairuhi verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Northern Sami
1 entries- heaibat verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Polish
4 entries- bałamucić verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- gmerać verb (to spend (time) without haste or purpose)
- grzebać verb (to spend (time) without haste or purpose)
- guzdrać verb (to spend (time) without haste or purpose)
Romanian
4 entries- mocăi verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- omorî timpul verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- trena verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- tărăgăna verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Russian
4 entries- безде́льничать verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- каните́литься verb (to spend (time) without haste or purpose)
- копа́ться verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- ме́длить verb (to spend (time) without haste or purpose)
Scots
3 entries- daver verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- haiver verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- trottle verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Skolt Sami
1 entries- äjjned verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Spanish
1 entries- pelotearse verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Swedish
1 entries- slå dank verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Tamil
1 entries- நடமாடு verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Thai
2 entries- ลีลา verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- อู้ verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Turkish
3 entries- aylakça dolaşmak verb (to move or walk lackadaisically)
- boşa geçirmek verb (to spend (time) without haste or purpose)
- oyalanmak verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ба́братися verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Vietnamese
2 entries- chờn vờn verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
- la cà verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Welsh
1 entries- hoetian verb (to spend time idly and unfruitfully)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
Now if you dawdle on the streets of Rome or Milan, police demand to see your travel papers and hurry you on, telling you to move quickly.
Source: tatoeba (8609821)
Come along now, you mustn't dawdle.
Source: tatoeba (8683377)
Don't dawdle.
Source: tatoeba (10263473)
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