dawdle
要点名,
意味
- (…を)ぐずぐずする,怠けてする《+over+名》
- 〈時間など〉を空費する《+away+名,+名+away》
例文
Don't dawdle about, make haste!
ちんたらしてないで、さっさとしろ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The verb is possibly: * a variant of daddle (“(Britain, dialectal) to walk or work slowly, dawdle, saunter, trifle”) or doddle (“(Britain, dialectal) to walk feebly or slowly, dawdle, idle, saunter, stroll”), possibly influenced by daw (“(Britain, dialectal) lazy, good-for-nothing person, sluggard”); or * borrowed from Middle Low German dȫdelen (“to dawdle”), related to Saterland Frisian döädelje (“to dawdle”); compare also German daddeln (“to play”), German verdaddeln (“to waste (time), neglect, ruin”). All of these words are assumed to be of imitative origin. The noun is derived from the verb.