What is "dawdles"

Usage examples of "dawdles".

No, he doesn't hurry, he dawdles about, he walks on tiptoe, slowly placing one foot in front of the other.

There had been under Moddle's system no dawdles at shop-windows and no nudges, in Oxford Street, of "I SAY, look at 'ER!

One dawdles along about three hundred miles up and then descends quickly to find him­self at the same local time as that of one's departure point.

He cast a weak smile in Alusair's direction, then added, "The way your sister dawdles about, I'm sure I'll be waiting there when you arrive-if Vangerdahast doesn't leave me strung up by my thumbs someplace.