dillydally
Drag your feet
To dillydally is to waste time through indecision or aimless dawdling: Stop dillydallying and make up your mind.
The word suggests puttering about when you should be acting—not quite laziness, but a failure to get on with things.
Also spelled dilly-dally.
Delay action unnecessarily
- dawdleLinger without purpose
- tarryDelay one's leaving
- lingerStay beyond necessity
- stallEnclosed compartment or delay
postpone · defer · drag · put off · temporize · dither · lag · loiter
Linger without purpose
- saunterRelaxed, aimless stride
- ambleRelaxed, slow gait
- moseyWalk in no rush
- strollRelaxed walk for enjoyment
meander · lollygag · poke along · take one's time · unhurried · languid · lazy · lackadaisical
procrastinate
Delay action unnecessarily
stall · postpone · defer · drag · put off · temporize · dither · lag · loiter · waste time
dawdle
Linger without purpose
stroll · meander · lollygag · poke along · take one's time · unhurried · languid · lazy · lackadaisical · casual
waver
Hesitate or fluctuate
falter · equivocate · hedge · waffle · oscillate · fluctuate · teeter · seesaw · ambivalent · irresolute
- Whimsy Wordsgobbledygook, gibberish, mumbo jumbo, hogwash, balderdash
dillydallyget cracking
Begin working urgently
get moving · buckle down · knuckle down · take action · seize the moment