DALLIED

DALLY

dally, trifle, play

(verb) consider not very seriously; “He is trifling with her”; “She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania”

dally, dawdle

(verb) waste time; “Get busy--don’t dally!”

dally, toy, play, flirt

(verb) behave carelessly or indifferently; “Play about with a young girl’s affection”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

dallied

simple past tense and past participle of dally

Anagrams

• allided, dialled

Source: Wiktionary

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DALLY

Dal"ly, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dallied; p. pr. & vb. n. Dallying.] Etym: [OE. , dailien; cf. Icel. pylja to talk, G. dallen, dalen, dahlen, to trifle, talk nonsense, OSw. tule a droll or funny man; or AS. dol foolish, E. dull.]

1. To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer. Calamy. We have put off God, and dallied with his grace. Barrow.

2. To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport. Not dallying with a brace of courtesans. Shak. Our aerie . . . dallies with the wind. Shak.

Dal"ly, v. t.

Definition: To delay unnecessarily; to while away. Dallying off the time with often skirmishes. Knolles.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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