dawdlern.
/ˈdɔːdlə/, /ˈdɔːdl̩ə/, U.S. /ˈdɔd(ə)lər/, /ˈdɑd(ə)lər/ One who dawdles; an idler, loiterer.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [noun] > one who or that which moves slowly > slow-moving person
Vulcan1600
Tom Long1602
dawdlea1764
dawdler1818
slowcoach1828
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] > sluggishness or heaviness > person
sluggard1398
slugc1425
dawa1500
belly huddroun?a1513
slowbelly1526
luggard?1528
heavy arse1530
slugger1539
druggard1569
slowback1577
snaila1593
slugplum1593
druggle1611
dawdlea1764
laggard1808
doldrum1812
dawdler1818
slowcoach1828
lag-last1830
slowpoke1847
morepork1874
slob1876
slow boat to China1919
schlump1941
1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Dawdle, or Dawdler, a trifler; a dallier; one who proceeds slowly or unskilfully in any business. A low word.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxix. 280 I have been a boy and a dawdler as yet.
1888 J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge xv Your habitual dawdler—the man who never keeps his appointments by any chance.
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