daidling

He became very tired of Glendochart's "daidling," and of the over-delicacy of his attentions.

Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891

And now, "she went on," there's no manner of service in your daidling here, for the young woman is from home, and it's my fear that the old woman is no suitable companion for your father's son.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

And now, "she went on," there's no manner of service in your daidling here, for the young woman is from home, and it's my fear that the old woman is no suitable companion for your father's son.

Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

And now, "she went on," there's no manner of service in your daidling here, for the young woman is from home, and it's my fear that the old woman is no suitable companion for your father's son.

David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

` ` The deil's in the daidling body, 'muttered Jeanie between her teeth; ` ` wha wad hae thought o his daikering out this length?' '

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

"The deil's in the daidling body," muttered Jeanie between her teeth;

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

"The deil's in the daidling body," muttered Jeanie between her teeth;

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

“He’s but a coward body after a’,” said Cuddie, who was himself by no means deficient in that sort of courage which consists in insensibility to danger; “he’s but a daidling coward body.

Old Mortality 2004

"Shepstone -- Shepstone!" she cried, "a useless, daidling body!

The Dew of Their Youth 1887

"He's but a coward body after a '," said Cuddie, who was himself by no means deficient in that sort of courage which consists in insensibility to danger; "he's but a daidling coward body.

Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801