fritter+away+time
41Inactivity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Inactivity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 inactivity inactivity Sgm: N 1 inaction inaction &c. 681 Sgm: N 1 inertness inertness &c. 172 Sgm: N 1 obstinacy obstinacy &c. 606 GRP: N 2 …
42putter — v 1. busy, fool around, trifle, fool with; fiddle, toy, play, Inf. monkey with, Inf. mess with; potter, piddle, fidget with, fribble, Inf. fiddle faddle; tinker, dabble, footle, Sl. screw around with. 2. loiter, dawdle, diddle, diddle daddle,… …
43loiter — loiterer, n. loiteringly, adv. /loy teuhr/, v.i. 1. to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal. 2. to move in a slow, idle manner, making purposeless stops in the course of a trip, journey, errand …
44loiter — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. linger, poke, dawdle, lag. See slowness. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. linger, linger idly, dawdle, dally, idle, lag, saunter, stroll, delay, shuffle, waste time, putter, procrastinate, traipse, shamble …
45loiter — loi•ter [[t]ˈlɔɪ tər[/t]] v. i. 1) to linger aimlessly or as if aimlessly in or about a place 2) to move in a slow, idle manner 3) to waste time or dawdle over work 4) to pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner (usu. fol. by away): to loiter… …
46dawdle — v. n. Trifle, dally, fiddle, lose time, waste time, idle away time, fritter away time, fool away time …
47fiddle — I. n. Violin. II. v. n. 1. Play on a fiddle. 2. Trifle, dawdle, lose, time, waste time, idle away time, fritter away time, fool away time …
48dillydally — v vacillate, fluctuate, waver, hover, hem and haw, blow hot and cold; trifle, toy, flirt, potter, putter, Inf. piddle, Sl. futz; dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, shillyshally, take one s time, take one s own sweet time, Inf. lallygag; delay, tarry …
49dally — v. n. 1. Trifle, dawdle, lose time, waste time, idle away time, fritter away time. 2. Fondle, toy, interchange caresses …
50diddle — Synonyms and related words: ball, bamboozle, be intimate, beat, beguile, beguile of, beguile the time, betray, bilk, bluff, bunco, burn, burn daylight, cajole, cheat, cheat on, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, circumvent, cog, cog the dice, cohabit …
