procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally
(verb) postpone doing what one should be doing; “He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
dillydally (third-person singular simple present dillydallies, present participle dillydallying, simple past and past participle dillydallied)
Alternative spelling of dilly-dally
Source: Wiktionary
Dil"ly-dal`ly, v. i. Etym: [See Dally.]
Definition: To loiter or trifle; to waste time.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
