dawdle vs swan

dawdle

verb
  • To move or walk lackadaisically. 

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

  • 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. 

swan

verb
  • To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way. 

  • To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions). 

noun
  • One whose grace etc. suggests a swan. 

  • This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire). 

  • Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage. 

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