dawdle vs whirl

dawdle

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. 

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. 

whirl

noun
  • An act of whirling. 

  • (usually following “give”) A brief experiment or trial. 

  • Something that whirls. 

  • A rapid series of events. 

  • Dizziness or giddiness. 

  • A confused tumult. 

verb
  • To make something or someone whirl. 

  • To have a sensation of spinning or reeling. 

  • To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch. 

  • To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly. 

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