to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter

Stop dawdling and help me with these packages!

to move slowly, languidly, or dilatorily; saunter.

to waste (time) by or as if by trifling (usually fol. by away )

He dawdled away the whole morning.

verb

forward , hasten , hurry , push , rush , speed

verb

amble , bum around , dally , diddle-daddle , dilly-dally * , drag , fool around * , fritter away , get no place fast , goof off * , hang around * , hang out * , idle , lag , laze , lazy , loaf , loiter , loll , lounge , mosey * , poke * , procrastinate , put off , saunter , scrounge around , shlep along , sit around , sit on one’s butt , stay , stroll , tarry , toddle , trifle , wait , warm a chair , dilly-dally , linger , poke , trail , fiddle away , kill , trifle away , waste , while , wile , delay , diddle , dillydally , dream , lackadaisical , lollygag , mope , mosey , piddle , putter , toy , vacillate , waste time