dawdle vs yomp

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. 

yomp

verb
  • To make a strenuous long-distance march. 

noun
  • A long-distance march carrying full kit. 

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