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To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.

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  1. v. i. To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.
  2. n. Alt. of Quiddler
  3. To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle. One who wastes his energy about trifles. Emerson.
  4. To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to usefulsubjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.
  5. v. i. To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle. n. Alt. of Quiddler