dawdler

  • 91dawdle — verb (I) to take a long time to do something or go somewhere: Don t dawdle we re late already! (+ over): I dawdled over a second cup of coffee. dawdler noun (C) …

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  • 92laggard — noun there ll be no laggards on my watch, Mr. Tyler Syn: straggler, loiterer, lingerer, dawdler, sluggard, snail, idler, loafer; informal lazybones, slacker, slowpoke, foot dragger …

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  • 93derelict — adj 1. abandoned, forsaken, deserted, neglected; relinquished, given up, left behind, Naut. (of a ship) a hull; discarded, rejected, cast off or away or aside; shunned, scorned, outcast, forlorn; bereft, adrift, alone, solitary, lonely, desolate; …

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  • 94do-nothing — n 1. idler, faineant, loafer, drone, Inf. bum, sluggard, slugabed, lazybones; laggard, loiterer, lounger, lingerer, trifler, dawdler, dallier; day dreamer, lotus eater; shirker, goldbrick, Sl. goof off; good for nothing, ne er do well, Fr.… …

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  • 95drone — I n parasite, leech, sponger, Inf. sponge, Inf. deadbeat; do nothing, idler, fainéant, loafer, Inf. bum, sluggard, slugabed, lazybones; laggard, loiterer, lounger, lingerer, trifler, dawdler, dallier; daydreamer, lotus eater; shirker, goldbrick,… …

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  • 96idler — n loafer, lounger, loiterer, lazybones, sluggard, slugabed, sloth, dawdler, snail, laggard, slouch, lolle, Weary Willie; dreamer, lotus eater, castle builder; vagrant, drifter, tramp, beggar, Inf. bum, Brit. layabout, deadbeat, pike, piker, Inf.… …

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  • 97laggard — n 1. lagger, lingerer, loiterer, lounger, loller, dallier, trifler, dawdler; Inf. slowpoke, Sl. poke, snail, sluggard; do nothing, faineant, idler, drone, Inf. bum, Inf. lazybones, Sl. slugabed. adj 2. slow, Inf. poky, sluggish, backward; slow… …

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  • 98latecomer — n 1.Johnny come lately, late arrival, Inf. ten o clock scholar; procrastinator, cunctator, post poner, delayer; dallier, dawdler, idler, trifler, lingerer, loiterer; laggard, Inf. slow poke, Inf. poke, snail. 2. newcomer, arriviste, parvenu, Fr.… …

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  • 99lazybones — n Informal. lie abed, slugabed, Inf. lazyboots; Inf. lazylegs; idler, loafer, lounger, loller, faineant, do nothing, slouch, sluggard, Inf. goldbricker, Sl. goof off, Brit. Sl. skiver; laggard, loiterer, lingerer; dallier, dillydallier, dawdler,… …

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  • 100lie-abed — n slugabed, Inf. lazybones, Inf. lazyboots, Inf. lazylegs; idler, loafer, lounger, loller, do nothing, slouch, sluggard; shirker, Inf. goldbricker, Sl. goof off, Brit. Sl. skiver, Brit. Sl. scrimshanker; laggard, loiterer, lingerer, sleepy head;… …

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