Dally
['dælɪ]
Definition
(verb.) consider not very seriously; 'He is trifling with her'; 'She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania'.
(verb.) waste time; 'Get busy--don't dally!'.
(verb.) behave carelessly or indifferently; 'Play about with a young girl's affection'.
Typed by Jed--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.
(v. i.) To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.
(v. t.) To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
Checker: Rudolph
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Trifle, dawdle, lose time, waste time, idle away time, fritter away time.[2]. Fondle, toy, interchange caresses.
Typist: Nola
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Trifle, play, wanton, sport, fondle, delay, procrastinate, dawdle
ANT:Toil, labor, work, study, fag, stir, bustle, hasten
Editor: Tess
Definition
v.i. to lose time by idleness or trifling: to play: to exchange caresses:—pa.p. dall′ied.—ns. Dall′iance dallying toying or trifling: interchange of embraces: delay; Dall′ier a trifler.
Checker: Sumner
Examples
- I started in to make a number of these lamps, but I soon found that the X-ray had affected poisonously my assistant, Mr. Dally, so that his hair came out and his flesh commenced to ulcerate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I would dally, wait, talk, and when impulse urged I would act. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I HAVE lingered thus long on the extreme bank, the wasting shoal that stretched into the stream of life, dallying with the shadow of death. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Edited by Angus