"To dawdle" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 蘑菇 | mó gu | mushroom / to pester / to dawdle |   |
| 磨蹭 | mó ceng | to rub lightly / to move slowly / to dawdle / to dillydally / to pester / to nag | |
| 泡汤 | pào tāng | to dawdle / to go slow deliberately / to fizzle out / to have all one's hopes dashed / (Tw) to have a soak in a hot spring | |
| 泡 |  pào | bubble / foam / blister (i.e. skin bubble) / to soak / to steep / to infuse / to dawdle / to shilly-shally / to hang about / to pick up (a girl) / to get off with (a sexual partner) / classifier for occurrences of an action / classifier for number of infusions | |
| 挨 | ái | to suffer / to endure / to pull through (hard times) / to delay / to stall / to play for time / to dawdle | |
| 夌 | líng | to dawdle / the name of the father of the Emperor Yao | |
| 磨唧 | mó jī | to be very slow / to dawdle | |
| 磨叽 | mò ji | (dialect) to dawdle / to waste time / also written 墨跡|墨迹[mo4 ji5] | |
