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Dawdler

noun
1.
Someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind.  Synonyms: drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer.






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"Dawdler" Quotes from Famous Books



... finely dressed, ma'am," was the woman's careful answer, "but I don't make friends with strange nurses and I don't think much of hers. She's a young dawdler who sits novel reading and if Master Donal were a young pickpocket with the measles, the child would be playing with him just the same as far as I can see. The young woman sits under a tree and reads and the pretty little thing may do what she likes. I keep my eye on them, ...
— The Head of the House of Coombe • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... been from my youth up an easy-going man, a drifter, a dawdler, always willing to put off work for play. But for once I pulled myself together, looked things in the face, and put my back to the wheel. I was determined to repay that nine hundred dollars, if I had to cut every dinner-party for the rest ...
— Love, The Fiddler • Lloyd Osbourne



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