Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Dawdle \Daw"dle\ (d[add]"d'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dawdled}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Dawdling}.] [Cf. {Daddle}.]
   To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.

         Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with
         me.                                      --Johnson.

         We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall.   --Thackeray.

Source : WordNet®

dawdling
     n : the deliberate act of wasting time instead of working [syn:
         {dalliance}, {trifling}, {wasting time}]