Word Meanings - DAWDLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.

Related words: (words related to DAWDLER)

• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
  Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.
• TRIFLING
  Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n.
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.
• TRIFLUCTUATION
  A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne.
• IDLER
  One who has constant day duties on board ship, and keeps no regular watch. Totten. (more info) 1. One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard.
• BRIDLER
  One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle. Milton.