dawdle vs guzzle

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. 

guzzle

verb
  • To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst. 

  • To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto. 

noun
  • The throat. 

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