dawdle

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dawdle englannista suomeksi

  1. viivytellä

  2. madella, löntystää

  3. maleksia

  1. vetelehtiä

  2. himmailla slang, kuhnailla, kuhnia, kuhnustella, kupata informal, kupeksia, kuppailla informal, nuhjata, vetelehtiä, viipyä, viivytellä

  3. lampsia, velttoilla

dawdle englanniksi

  1. ''Chiefly followed by'' away: to spend (time) without haste or purpose. (defdate)

  2. (ux)

  3. (RQ:Robert Browning Red Cotton)

  4. To spend time idly and unfruitfully; to time. (defdate)

  5. (synonyms)

  6. (RQ:Boswell Johnson)

  7. (RQ:Austen Pride and Prejudice)

  8. (RQ:Ruskin Dust)

  9. (quote-book)|location=|publisher=John C. Nimmo(nb...)|year=1888|pages=263–264|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=80dAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA264|oclc=12886885|passage=There are no idlers here; the only loungers are those who have undertaken for hire to do other people's business, and the hireling dawdleth because he ''is'' an hireling. What is his master's business to him? he neither knows its importance nor yet cares he if it be neglected.

  10. (quote-book)|year=1898|volume=II|section=§ 86 (Against the Cow-house Snake), subsection b|page=172|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/preandprotohisto02aber/page/172/mode/1up|oclc=750603626|passage=White creature wholly white, thou winter-coloured imp, tongue-shaped and slippery, 'wall-streak' and 'rubbish of the floor,' that livest 'neath timbers of a house, that dawdlest underneath the nook, (..)

  11. (quote-web)

  12. To move or walk lackadaisically.

  13. (RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair)

  14. (RQ:Black Phaeton) I began to wonder if this Arthur were really the same lad she used to pet and think so much of when he came down to Leatherhead and dawdled with my Lady and Bell along the Surrey lanes of an evening.

  15. (quote-book)

  16. An act of spending time idly and unfruitfully; a dawdling.

  17. An act of moving or walking lackadaisically, a dawdling; a leisurely or slow walk or other journey.

  18. (synonym of)

  19. (RQ:Colman Garrick Clandestine Marriage)

  20. (alternative spelling of)