Skip to main content
(noun) Something that doesn't ever ripen but proceeds to rot.
He never gets anything accomplished even though he appears to work a lot. He's dawdle.

The white of an "over-easy" egg that remains uncooked and wiggly is dawdle.

A fruit that is purchased in unripe condition and quickly rots instead of ripening is dawdle.
dawdle by semitame September 5, 2005
To move or run at an extreme speed.
They dawdled to the finish line.
Dawdle by Mary was a Webster May 16, 2022
a subject that was argued about in an 8th grade Career Exploration class
Dave: Dawdle means someone who drives slow!
Mary: No it means, a slow person!
Mary was a Webster: Check the urban dictionary and you will see that it actually means to move extremely fast.
dawdle by Webster was a Mary June 1, 2022

del.icio.us dawdle 

Wasting time by looking at people's bookmarks on del.icio.us, usually someone you found because you've saved the same link.
danah likes to reconstruct the identity of a user from bookmarks she encounters during a del.icio.us dawdle, but it's mostly apophenia.
del.icio.us dawdle by PBMax May 1, 2008

hoodly daddle 

The moon, according to the baby boomers who allegedly landed men there in their spare time.
The hoodly daddle sure is bright tonight! You know we landed a man there when I was only in high school? What have you done millennial!
A memer in your A1 meme squad that uses a classic/legendary tier meme incorrectly.
How are you finna meme that bad dawgle?
Dawgle by mnwvv November 6, 2016