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DALLIES
Noun
dallies
plural of dally
Verb
dallies
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dally
Anagrams
• allides, asellid, disleal, sallied
Source: Wiktionary
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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