dawdle vs perendinate

dawdle

verb
  • To spend time idly and unfruitfully; to waste time. 

  • To move or walk lackadaisically. 

  • Chiefly followed by away: to spend (time) without haste or purpose. 

noun
  • An act of spending time idly and unfruitfully; a dawdling. 

  • Synonym of dawdler (“a person who dawdles or idles”) 

  • An act of moving or walking lackadaisically, a dawdling; a leisurely or slow walk or other journey. 

perendinate

verb
  • To procrastinate for a long time, especially two days. 

  • To remain at college for an unusually long time. 

How often have the words dawdle and perendinate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )