1) TO DAWDLE
To loiter, to lounge, especially over one's work. A word much used by women.
Come, some evening, and dawdle over a dish of tea with me.--Johnson's Letters.
Looking out of the window, I can see a dozen of these industrious burghers, dawdling about a bar-room opposite.--Hoffman, Winter in the West, Let. 35.
2) A DAWDLE
In women's language, one who loiters over his or her work.