▪ I. dawdling, vbl. n.
(ˈdɔːdlɪŋ)
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb dawdle.
| 1819 [see dawdle v. 1]. 1849 Thackeray Lett. 13 July, Ryde..would be as nice a place as any..for dawdling, and getting health. 1875 Baroness Bunsen in Hare Life II. viii. 457 With old age comes dawdling, that is, doing everything too slowly. |
▪ II. ˈdawdling, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That dawdles; characterized by dawdling.
| 1773 F. Burney Early Diary 3 May, The mother is a slow, dawdling, sleepy kind of dame. 1782 ― Diary 8 Dec., With whom I had a dawdling conversation upon dawdling subjects. 1843 Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 265 The dreaming, reading, dawdling existence which best suits me. |
Hence ˈdawdlingly adv.
| 1860 Sat. Rev. IX. 145/1 Some very important Bill which..has been dawdlingly postponed from day to day. |