Note: The daw was reckoned as a silly bird, and a daw meant a simpleton. See in Shakespeare: — "Then thou dwellest with daws too." (Coriolanus iv. 5, 1. 47.) Skeat.
DAW
Daw, v. i. Etym: [OE. dawen. See Dawn.]
Defn: To dawn. [Obs.] See Dawn.
DAW
Daw, v. t. Etym: [Contr. fr. Adaw.]
1. To rouse. [Obs.]
2. To daunt; to terrify. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
DAWDLE
Daw"dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dawdled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dawdling.]
Etym: [Cf. Daddle.]
Defn: To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. Johnson.
We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. Thackeray.
DAWDLE
Daw"dle, v. t.
Defn: To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.