There are lots of words that mean to move slowly. The point of dawdle is that one is moving too slowly, is falling behind, or is not properly focused on making progress.
To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
Verb
hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
Verb
waste time; "Get busy--don''t dally!"
Verb
take one''s time; proceed slowly
v. i.
To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to
saunter.
v. t.
To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole
morning.
n.
A dawdler.
Dawdle
Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me.
We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall.
Dawdle
Dawdle
To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
To waste by trifling;
A dawdler.
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